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Nevertheless, in an institution famously averse to strong leadership, there continue to be heard calls for a strong and heroic leader, and in certain quarters, a leader who can regain control and put the faculties in their place. In an age where corporate dictators are out of fashion, and many are out of work or in jail, there are some, even here, who long for a charismatic figure on a white horse who can get things done. Josiah Quincy, Class of 1790, president from 1829 to 1845, was just such a person. He was not an academic, but a lawyer...
...three-point shooting finally came to life when McAndrew and forward Colin Aldridge each scored from beyond the arc in a 10-second span to narrow Harvard’s lead to 87-84 with 29 seconds left to play. The Bears could only resort to fouling to regain possession, but the Crimson responded by efficiently taking care of business, converting 5-of-6 free throws to put the game out of reach. Although Cusworth fouled out with 1:34 to play and could not end his Harvard career on the court, he left the game to a standing ovation...
...wounds as an embedded reporter in Baghdad three years ago. The exercise equipment we had at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington was old, the therapy wards and gyms overcrowded. There was no "flowrider" to help rebuild abdominal muscles in a water slide, nor laser gun studio to regain digital function by firing M4 replicas against video images. We made do with the best the government had to offer...
...pursued the P.L.O.'s diplomatic and military strategies, including a failed joint peace effort with an old adversary, Jordan's King Hussein. Now Arafat's P.L.O. has returned to Lebanon with vengeance. In the bloodiest fighting since rival Christian factions clashed a year ago, Arafat is struggling to regain his former stronghold in the strife-torn country. And an array of his enemies?Israel, Syria and the Lebanese Shi'ite Amal militiamen aligned with Syria?so far seem powerless to stop...
Even as Ronald Reagan tried to regain control of events in the most serious crisis of his presidency, new revelations about these secret machinations kept him on the defensive. There seemed no quick way to clear up the mysteries stemming from the Administration's admission two weeks ago that up to $30 million in profits from secret shipments of U.S. arms to Iran had been diverted to support the guerrilla warfare of the U.S.-backed contras against Nicaragua's Marxist Sandinista government...