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...predecessor and my mentor, Yuri Andropov, had told me before he himself got seriously ill that I must be prepared to assume the highest responsibility one day. I knew what he meant. He tried to ensure that event. In December 1983, two months before his death, Andropov sent a written message to the Central Committee plenum, suggesting that "Gorbachev should be entrusted with actual leadership." I did not know that he did this. And neither did the plenum. In 1988, I learned that Chernenko had simply cut off that part of the message and concealed it. And so he became...
These plans were discussed under the tenure of Kirby’s predecessor, Houghton Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Jeremy R. Knowles and were sketched out by none other than Lewis himself...
Lewis was the first dean of the College to be a full Faculty member—occupying the title of McKay Professor of Computer Science—following a long line of pure administrators like his mild-mannered predecessor, L. Fred Jewett...
...action for the screen without getting bogged down in background. If you're a newcomer, you're better off ignoring the myriad guilds and secret societies at play and enjoying it more as a juicy religio-political soap opera, in which respect it is as satisfying as its predecessor (which Sci Fi is rerunning on March...
...preregistration is voted down in April, it will be a major victory for undergraduates, but a bigger defeat for Dean Kirby. It’s hard to imagine Kirby’s predecessor, Jeremy R. Knowles, who religiously built broad consensus before he brought an issue to the Faculty floor, presiding silently over slings and arrows as Kirby did this week. That Kirby has political lessons to learn should be no surprise; deans frequently find themselves in controversial battles early in their tenure. But that a dean with an undergraduate education mandate chose to pick a fight that so clearly...