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...Boston University has produced a clear improvement in the institution, both academically and financially. But his combativeness has left the university in a state of "enervative calm" because, says one professor, "people are too tired to fight anymore." Silber handles the university's board "like Stalin worked the Politburo," in the words of one faculty member. He has reduced faculty and students to tears with his explosive temper and bruising classroom behavior. During the 1970s he dismissed undergraduates who published a student newspaper called bu exposure as "short-pants communists...
...tapped him to be the clean broom needed to sweep out the corruption in the Moscow city party organization. Yeltsin handled the task with such verve, poking into the corners of public services and firing hacks by the hundreds, that he was appointed a nonvoting member of the party Politburo...
...enmity started when Yeltsin began to display a calculated indifference to protocol at Politburo meetings. As a candidate member, he was expected to show proper respect for his superiors, especially General Secretary Gorbachev. Instead he chose to treat the ritualized meetings as a setting for serious debate. In the summer of 1987 he boldly offered a long list of objections to a report Gorbachev planned to present on the 70th anniversary of the October Revolution. The party chief stormed out and left the other members sitting silently for half an hour before he returned. At that moment, Yeltsin said, "Gorbachev...
...October Yeltsin told a Central Committee plenum that he was resigning from the Politburo and went on to denounce the slow pace of economic reform under perestroika. Particularly galling to Gorbachev must have been Yeltsin's observation that there was still not a "good atmosphere" at the top of the party. Yeltsin disapproved, he said, of the "increase in what I can only call adulation of the General Secretary by certain full members of the Politburo...
...parliament alike. Just as the war of nerves between the Kremlin and secessionists in Lithuania entered a new and delicate phase, Mikhail Gorbachev suddenly faced a challenge to his power much closer to home. His only real rival in the turbulent arena of Soviet politics, the maverick former Politburo member Boris Yeltsin, mounted an impressive campaign to become the president of the country's largest and most important republic, the Russian federation...