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...committee members contacted yesterday said that Clark's outspoken opposition to Harvard's CLS proponents made him the candidate least likely to quell the political turmoil the Law School has seen in recent years...

Author: By Jonathan S. Cohn, | Title: Committee Was Wary of Clark | 2/17/1989 | See Source »

...when it was reported in November that Clark was on the "short list" of nine candidates for the deanship, professors and students said he was an unlikely choice. They said appointing Clark would probably exacerbate existing conflicts, and doubted that Bok would choose such an outspoken professor...

Author: By Jonathan S. Cohn, | Title: Committee Was Wary of Clark | 2/17/1989 | See Source »

...there was no mistaking it for fan mail. The message from the Marxist-led Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.) informed the mayor of Cojutepeque that she was obstructing El Salvador's revolution and gave her a choice: resign within 72 hours or face "popular justice." Gomez, a normally outspoken member of the right-wing ARENA party, knew exactly what * the last phrase meant. In the past year, eight mayors who ignored similar F.M.L.N. invitations to quit had been "executed," as the rebels call their political murders. Unwilling to become another dismal statistic, Gomez joined 42 other mayors who have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: El Salvador An Offer They Couldn't Refuse | 1/30/1989 | See Source »

David E. Sullivan, the most outspoken proponent of rent control, announced his withdrawal from the 1989 council race this fall, citing a need to spend time with his family. And Saundra M. Graham, a fellow rent control supporter, says she is retiring from elected office to work with the League of Afro-American Women, a local minority entrepreneurship organization...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: A Watershed Year in Cambridge Politics | 1/27/1989 | See Source »

With Cambridge's at-large proportional representation system, the only sure things seem to be that another outspoken liberal will replace Sullivan and that an East Cambridge native--of uncertain political orientation--will replace Vellucci...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: A Watershed Year in Cambridge Politics | 1/27/1989 | See Source »

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