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President Matina S. Horner will leave the post this spring, after 17 years of guiding Radcliffe through the most turbulent period in its history and defining what Radcliffe has become today. Horner assumed the presidency in 1972, in the wake of an agreement between Harvard and Radcliffe, which unified undergraduate housing and academics. In 1977, Radcliffe fully ceded control of undergraduate life to Harvard, but retained financial and administrative independence, institutional programs and oversight of the role of women at Harvard...
Coats said the first two post-Challenger flights--by Discovery in September and Atlantis in December--"were important to show that we could fly the space shuttle again after the catastrophe...
...Neill, Harvard's associate vice president for state and community relations, announced last week that she would step down from her post in June. She has been the University's chief representative to the community for 12 years...
Whether or not that optimistic forecast comes true will ultimately depend on the quality of the paper, which is the province of editor Jane Amsterdam. A respected veteran of the glossy Manhattan Inc., Amsterdam has moved slowly since arriving at the Post last May. While she has curtailed most of the Murdoch-era excesses, revived the paper's credibility and boosted staff morale, the Post still retains much of its traditional gamy flavor. DEVIL- LOVING TEXAS TEEN NABBED IN MOM'S SLAYING was the headline over one story last week...
...workplace. Institute director R. Roosevelt Thomas Jr. says racism is not always the explanation when a black supervisor creates discontent among white workers: "Sometimes people are not skilled at managing people who are different from themselves." As an agency manager in Atlanta a few years after his North Carolina post, Equitable's St. Clair presided over a 90-member office with just a handful of white workers. He found himself helping them cope with their minority status. Having been the only black in meetings of 300 or more people, he knew what they were going through. "Sometimes you just...