Word: protegees
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Roberts says he is leaving to travel and teach, but several staff members contend that he is exiting primarily because he was worn down by his ongoing tug-of-war with Knight-Ridder officials. Worried about flat circulation (522,000) and flagging advertising revenue (despite respectable pretax profits), the corporate...
But Galbraith said that Ishaq Khan, whom hecalled an "old protege" of Zia ul-Haq, had opposedBhutto since her election.
Pre-Vatican Council, aspiring Jesuits moved through 15 years of training in lockstep. Healy spent four years studying theology at Belgium's Louvain University. Seven years later he went abroad again, in pursuit of a Ph.D. at Oxford, and if there is an invisible monastery in his life, a spiritual...
Too small for the pros by maybe 4 in. in van Breda Kolff's opinion, Carril embarked on a career as a high school government teacher and basketball coach. He won early and often. In 1966 he applied for the coaching job at Lehigh and got it by default. One...
The reasoning went like this. Despite his disillusion with "Soviet reality" and his aspirations for "humanitarian socialism," Gorbachev was neither Thomas Jefferson nor Vaclav Havel. He was Yuri Andropov's protege, the Stavropol chieftain who came to the big city and made good. He was still thought to be a...