Word: leader
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With the selection of Wilson, a non-teaching administrator who has shown little support for women's issues, Radcliffe has not only further distanced itself from the Harvard community; it has also failed to provide women students and faculty with a leader...
WHILE the Radcliffe Board of Trustees was clearly interested in finding an experienced fundraiser to fill the post, it did make an effort to select an individual who could be a leader in more than one area for Radcliffe...
...dean in the college--a position assured the Radcliffe president in the 1977 non-merger merger agreement--and the supposed leader of the women's undergraduate community, Horner could have forged a new role for herself, and Radcliffe, within the Harvard administration. She chose not to. Wilson has already indicated plans to do the same...
What happened to the promise of Marion Barry, the fire-snorting civil rights leader? Some say the promise never existed, that all along he was an opportunist obsessed with power. Others shrug and wonder if he simply traded in his civil rights merit badges for the good life. Perhaps the passion for power simply overwhelmed his compassion for the powerless. Yet he bristles at talk of promises lost. "I reject all of that because the things I was fighting for when I came into Washington were justice, equality, fairness, for blacks to get into certain positions of responsibility, to make...
Ethnic disorders were not the only sad news that Gorbachev conveyed to the Congress last week. On Monday, dressed in a funereal black suit, the Soviet leader called for a moment of silence in memory of "several hundred" Soviets who perished over the weekend in a gas-pipeline explosion in the southern Ural mountains. Some three hours before the explosion, technicians apparently noticed a dip in pressure along one section of the pipeline. But instead of searching for a leak, they turned up the gas flow to get the pressure back to normal, allowing huge quantities of propane, butane...