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Last week's primaries did more than just eliminate two of the four candidates vying to relieve Gov. Michael S. Dukakis at the helm of the Massachusetts ship of state. It also threw overboard a number of the signal flags that had separated one party from another in the campaign's early days...
...Michael Spence--long known for his methodical, cautious and prudent leadership style--made the boldest move of his career last week. Citing personal reasons, Spence announced that he would step down as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences--the second highest position at Harvard--to take the helm of the Stanford University Business School. While academic observers described the move as a "step down" for Spence, the reality for Harvard is the loss of a talented administrator whose effect on the University will only be seen in years to come...
Khrushchev, who will be in Moscow until joining the IOP in late October, has just written a book-- Khrushchev on Khrushchev--that describes his father's tenure at the helm of the Soviet Union and relates those years to the present rule of Mikhail S. Gorbachev...
Trinidadians traditionally express their political feelings in satirical calypso songs. Prime Minister A.N.R. Robinson won a landslide four years ago to the tune of Captain, the Ship Is Sinking, a telling commentary on the island nation's economic decline. But the conservative Robinson almost lost the helm himself last week, when a group of fanatic black Muslims took him and 54 others hostage in an attempt to bring down the government...
Four punishing years into her six-year term, Aquino remains surprisingly undaunted by the precarious state of her country and her tenuous grip on the helm. Her government is struggling to cope with a store of major problems -- economic, political and security-related -- which have created a growing crisis of confidence among liberal activists over the ability of fragile democratic institutions to deliver reform...