Word: leader
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University officials announced Wednesday that J. Bryan Hehir, the Divinity School's interim leader for the past eight months, will become the school's permanent head, making him the first Roman Catholic ever to hold the position at Harvard...
KFOR commander General Sir Michael Jackson said last weekend that the KLA leadership was not fully in control of its "hard-liners." But this may have simply been a polite warning -? observers agree that KLA leader Hashem Thaci, despite political support from Washington, is himself one of the movement?s leading hard-liners. The ethnic cleansing of the province?s remaining Serbs and the violence against peacekeepers would be unlikely without at least the tacit support of the KLA. And that?s a problem for NATO, which insists on a multiethnic Kosovo, and opposes independence. But it?s not only...
Beijing estimates that Falun Gong (also known as Falun Dafa) has acquired 2 million adherents since it was founded in 1992; the group claims 100 million practitioners. Official paranoia about this invisible force reaches as high as President Jiang. The 72-year-old leader, not known for late-night Web surfing, has reportedly become obsessed with the sect and its ability to organize its activities in cyberspace. Apparently Jiang frequently brings up Falun Gong in conversations with high-level foreign visitors, and Western diplomatic sources say he was driven outside Zhongnanhai in a car with tinted windows to observe...
...found less objectionable--were drastically rewritten, Neelan said nothing. There are those who told me that the Sinhalese-dominated Sri Lankan government and the media made Neelan--who was appointed, not elected--a mouthpiece for the Tamil people. There are those who told me Neelan was a convenient, moderate leader for the West and those international leaders who ignore the Tamil cause...
...Thursday night, so we know they want it -? or at least want to be able to tell everyone they do. We know Bill Clinton is dead-set against it -? "I will have no choice but to veto it immediately" ?- and the Democrats, so far, are sticking by their fearless leader. But how about the voters? Polls show that Americans overwhelmingly favor lower taxes -? who wouldn?t? - until they?re reminded that there?s only so much money to go around. Put a big tax cut against saving Medicare, and that support all but disappears. The same thing happens when respondents...