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Unlike Sununu, the low-key Skinner is accustomed to playing the supporting role. A protege of former Illinois Governor Jim Thompson's, Skinner was reared in Illinois, received an accounting degree at the University of Illinois, served in the Army and then joined IBM as a sales representative. Though the | computer company named him Outstanding Salesman of 1967, Skinner attended law school at night and gave up his $50,000-a-year corporate job to be a $9,000-a- year prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney's office. He rose to U.S. Attorney, earning the nickname "Sam the Hammer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Chief Loyal but Not So Arrogant | 12/16/1991 | See Source »

These distinctly low-key changes serve as an appropriate marking of the begining of the term of Virginia L. Mackay-Smith '78 as Acting Dean of Freshmen. Like her office, she isn't a far cry from what came before. For as Mackay-Smith discusses her priorities and approaches to governing first-year life, one thing becomes clear: she is largely following in the footsteps of her predecessor, Henry C. Moses, who left Harvard last spring after a 10-year stint to become headmaster of Trinity School, a prestigious private school in New York...

Author: By Michele F. Forman, | Title: The FIRST Year for the First-YEAR Dean | 9/25/1991 | See Source »

...would go to the freshman tea from time to time," Mackay-Smith says. "I liked the atmosphere, a nice low-key environment--I speak in jargon these days--to meet the community of freshmen...

Author: By Michele F. Forman, | Title: The FIRST Year for the First-YEAR Dean | 9/25/1991 | See Source »

...campaign so far has been low-key, although very, very hardworking," said Cyr. "It's going to be fun. It's going to be fought out in the neighborhoods. I'm feeling very, very excited...

Author: By Jeffrey C. Wu, | Title: Bumper Stickers Mean City Elections Are Here | 9/13/1991 | See Source »

...campaign so far has been low-key, although very, very hardworking," said Cyr. "It's going to be fun. It's going to be fought out in the neighborhoods. I'm feeling very, very excited...

Author: By Jeffrey C. Wu, | Title: Bumper Stickers Mean City Elections Are Here | 9/11/1991 | See Source »

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