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...expect President Derek C. Bok to be a lame duck this year just because he's announced his intention to resign in June. Although Newsweek's conventional-wisdom gurus called him "Harvard's own Gerald Ford," Bok's low public profile can be very deceiving. He's no A. Bartlett Giamatti, which some people may regret, but he's no John Silber either, which makes every-one happy...
...dictator's string of victories seems to have run out. A force of some 5,000 rebels last week captured the Roberts Field International Airport; occupied the Firestone rubber plantation, the country's largest private employer; and drew up on the outskirts of Monrovia, the capital. Refusing to resign or flee, Doe barricaded himself in the executive mansion with several hundred members of his Israeli-trained elite guard. He vowed that the insurgents would take the city "over my dead body...
...gone for even the biggest stars, from Red Skelton to Walter Cronkite. NBC doubtless imagined it would be no different when it undertook to freshen the Today show by easing veteran co- anchor Jane Pauley toward the sidelines. But in the eight months since Pauley announced she would resign from the show, after seeing her role threatened by the advancement of the younger Deborah Norville, the fortunes of Today have steadily plummeted while Pauley's popularity has only risen. Ironically, she seems to have become a bigger star while mostly sitting on the sidelines than she was when she broadcast...
Springer signed the letter--and included his title as chair of Zionist Alliance. Many Hillel members objected to the use of his Hillel affiliation in support of a position which they support opposed, and some wanted him to resign from the position...
...feels alienated at Hill. "I feel welcome there, but sometimes when I'm there I feel like I represent diversity ...I'm to some extent typecast into a role which I have to fulfill," he says, adding, "I think it's important that people like me don't just resign from the Jewish community but try to make...