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...Governor of Algeria in the waning days of French colonial rule, then oversaw the modernization of the Paris region during the economic boom of the 1960s; in Provins. In 1958 Charles de Gaulle picked Delouvrier to head the French administration in Algeria. For three years he sought to quell the Algerian independence movement while trying to placate disruptive French army officers who suspected that Paris was intentionally letting the colony slip away. In 1961, during a helicopter ride over Paris, De Gaulle pointed to the congested urban sprawl below and told Delouvrier to ``put some order into this garbage dump...
Bending to political pressure, including unexpectedly sharp criticism from Bob Dole, soon-to-be Speaker Newt Gingrich rewrote the terms of a highly remunerative book deal with a Rupert Murdoch-controlled publishing house. Gingrich defended the deal as proper. But, saying he wanted to appear above reproach and quell any controversy, he announced he would forgo a $4.5 million advance for two books on politics. Instead he will settle for a $1 advance and royalties...
...addition, the financial aid system has undergone considerable change. The administration has cut 50 percent of aid allotments in order to trim Harvard's deficit. To quell the growing problem of welfare king-students and queen-students, all students receiving aid will have to take full-time jobs to justify their subsidies. Sadly, work-study jobs now belong to the past. To best stabilize Harvard's floundering economic condition, applications can no longer be need-blind...
...accounting for his actions, Hanselman added that he wanted to quell Harvard's reputation as the "Kremlin by the Charles." He clearly hasn't been reading his history books. When did the Soviet Union ever scrimp on he military? If Hanselman wanted to enhance possibilities for military service, perhaps he should have taken a cue from the Kremlin and proposed conscription...
Even that impressive plot line, however, was not enough to quell the concerns raised by Eisner's brush with mortality two weeks ago, when he was rushed to surgery after a weekend with other media moguls in Idaho's Sun Valley. The unexpected illness of Disney's chairman unleashed a flood of speculation about the future of a company that only four months ago lost its second-in-command, Frank Wells, to a helicopter crash in Nevada. Last week there was some evidence that Disney executives may finally be coming to grips with the succession problem: a Disney board member...