Word: leadershipabilities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This school has been a male bastion. We need to have women in leadership positions," Gaard says. "This is a training ground for the real world...
Yeltsin's choice of a young newcomer implies, of course, that he intends to be the boss and that it matters little who is Prime Minister. That could be a bad thing for a Russia that desperately needs continuity and leadership. For years Yeltsin's bursts of energy have been followed by illnesses and disappearances, vacations and prostration. He seems to have no reserves of stamina left, and the breakdowns are coming more frequently now. After he ousted the government last week, he tried to pump himself up again for a summit session with German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and French...
There are other organizations following a similar credo based on est teachings. They are all extensive moneymaking schemes shrouded in the psycho-babble of leadership. They tear down people's insecurities without providing the absolutely necessary rebuilding process. Someone needs to take action against these "self-help" seminars before more people are physically, psychically and psychologically damaged by the process. I certainly was. I attended an est program two years ago. It was the worst experience of my life. To this day the nightmare experience continues to be quite real. JUDITH SWEDEK Boulder, Colo...
...also gave a guest lecture in a course on Congress and the press taught by former Sen. Alan K. Simpson (R-Wyom.). Simpson, who now directs the Institute of Politics, was the Republican majority whip under Dole, the no. 2 leadership position in the Senate...
...maternal side of Wisse's family came from Vilnius, the present capital of Lithuania. In the city once known as the "Jerusalem of Lithuania" for its centuries-old leadership of Jewish intellectual and spiritual life, her grandmother ran a Yiddish publishing house. In Montreal, Wisse's mother sought to keep alive the family publishing tradition by organizing Yiddish literary salons, where major Yiddish writers and poets congregated...