Word: powerfully
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bringing Harvard's deans together to govern, he has not really given himself any more power or made the system any more efficient...
Rudenstine is certainly by no means alone inscaling back the power of his office. Universitypresidents are not what they used to be--either ininfluence and prestige or in academic status.Their roles have become more administrative innature. Rudenstine matches the new profile--a goodfacilitator, a personable individual but withoutthe desire to bring Harvard to the center of thenational limelight...
Will the university president ever be what itonce was? Fisher says a movement is alreadyunderway in American colleges and universities togive more power to the office of president. But tomake the heads of higher education truly importantfigures, in all probability, the president ofHarvard will have to make his voice heard. Theodds of Rudenstine doing so seem pretty slim. Asfisher puts it, "He's no James Conant...
...power that he wields Greenspan is said to showcase little of that power. Until he was married he was taken to work from his apartment in the Watergate (where former Senator and Republican presidential candidate Robert J. Dole and his wife Elizabeth lived) in a government-provided Mercury sedan...
...political majority which despises Bill Clinton and wants to remove him from office at any cost will have prevailed, at the expense of the integrity of the Constitution. Congress would use the constitutional procedure of impeachment as a substitute for censure. This amounts to a grave abuse of their power: To impeach Clinton this week would be to belittle the awesome mechanism our founders provided for the removal of our most powerful officer...