Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...enjoyed by those more proficient at math and at test-taking. Peter Liacouras, dean of Temple University's law school, told a Wall Street Journal reporter in February that the LSATs, even before the changes, failed to measure "common sense, motivation, judgement, idealism, client-handling ability, oral skills and leadership," among other skills...
Therefore it comes as no surprise that rather than assuming a leadership role in the struggle against apartheid, the Corporation has chosen to continue its indirect support of the Vorster government, once more affirming that Harvard places concern for profits ahead of concern for human lives. At the very least, the Corporations' should cease to justify its decision on the basis of moral concern for the "tragic and deplorable situation" in South Africa. An explanation in terms of financial considerations would be no more palatable, but it would not be quite so insluting to the community's intelligence...
Khama, who has served as Botswana's president since the country gained independence from Britain in 1966, has earned a reputation as a staunch foe of the apartheid policies of South Africa. Although continuing trade relations with that nation, Botswana has, under Khama's leadership, established itself as one of the foremost opponents of apartheid, frequently sponsoring and supporting United Nations resolutions condemning South Africa and its racial policies...
During the recent crisis in Zaïre, Western leadership was assumed by France. Indeed, with an estimated 10,000 troops and advisers now deployed in Africa, France has the second largest foreign contingent there, earning for the French the unflattering sobriquet, "the West's Cubans...
...camps whom Stalin had dispatched to the Gulag for the crime of having been captured. Though Solzhenitsyn had never been taken, he belonged to this new breed of camp rebels; a much decorated artillery captain, he had been arrested at the front for having written letters critical of Stalin. Leadership of the resistance movement was provided by prisoners from the western Ukraine, former guerrilla fighters who had alternately fought the Nazis and the Soviets in a desperate effort to gain their independence...