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"The way people get elected on the U.C. is first by having a person in a position of authority take you under their wing," Hillary K. Anger '93-94 says. "A lot of the guys in the council are not as likely to take a woman under their wing as...
Once the grand old man of Italy's Christian Democrats, 74-year old Giulio Andreotti has become the party's gray old man. Last Tuesday a parliamentary inquiry concluded that Andreotti's Sicilian protege had links to the Mafia. The next day Andreotti turned up at an army barracks to...
For months, Yeltsin had tried repeatedly to negotiate an accord on power sharing between the executive and legislative branches, but Khasbulatov, once a Yeltsin protege and advocate of reform, paid no attention. Even on the eve of last week's Congress, the presidential team gave fifty-fifty odds that a...
Athol Fugard has set My Children! My Africa! in Camdeboo, South Africa in the autumn of 1985, and the different ways his three characters choose to fight the lunacy are freighted with historical poignancy. "Mr. M" (Allen Oliver) wants sustained change through education and discipline, but his protege Thami (Donald...
WALL STREET TAKES NO PRISONERS THESE DAYS, which James D. Robinson III, chairman for 15 years of American Express, discovered. The week began well enough when he faced down a timid board of directors. Some board members had sought to oust him, but he forced them to back down and...