Word: job
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THOSE who pushed for the selection of a feminist scholar rather than an administrator had hoped to find a woman who would be more vocal and supportive of women faculty and students at the University. Wilson is clearly not the one for that job...
Working at a collegiate Sports Information office can hardly be considered a glamorous job, especially at Harvard, which boasts a huge, 41-sport varsity program...
Yang turned to the 27th Army, normally based in Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, and largely composed of ill-educated peasant conscripts with no ties to Beijing, for the harsh job of clearing Tiananmen. The President has personal links to the 27th through his brother Yang Baibing, who is top political commissar of the P.L.A., and Chief of Staff Chi Haotian, said to be another relative...
...bright, sensitive, well-off young fellow to grow up? Honoring tradition, Alec Stern decides to go abroad to try out maturity. His destination: Tokyo. Bicycle Days, a first novel by a 24-year-old Harvard graduate, is the wry, rueful story of Alec's efforts to cope with his job at a computer outfit and with a vexing foreign culture. Through his adoptive family, the friendship of an old fisherman and a troubling affair with an older woman, he succeeds in learning some humbling lessons. Of course that means turning west, to face life at home. Like his hero, Schwartz...
...reason Sousuke Uno got the Prime Minister's job in the wake of the Recruit influence-peddling scandal was that he was widely regarded as Mr. Clean. Last week that reputation was impugned from an unexpected quarter: a former geisha who claimed to have been his lover. SCOOP: A SCANDAL INVOLVING PRIME MINISTER UNO, shrieked a headline in the weekly magazine Sunday Mainichi. In an interview, the 40-year-old, otherwise unidentified former geisha said Uno paid her about $21,000 during a five-month affair that began in October 1985. She portrayed Uno as bullying and self-aggrandizing...