Word: role
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LAST week, Radcliffe officially revealed its choice of Linda S. Wilson, a University of Michigan administrator, to succeed Matina S. Horner as Radcliffe's seventh president. The selection of Wilson for the post raises questions about both the future of the institution and its role in undergraduate life. The new president's primary challenge will be to distinguish herself from her predecessor while continuing Radcliffe's scholarly programs and further defining its relationship to undergraduate women. Although the choice of Wilson gives some indication of Radcliffe's agenda for the future, it is as yet too soon to judge...
...students, faculty and administrators have been divided over what kind of role the new Radcliffe president should have at Harvard...
...Robert Holbrook, associate vice president for academic affairs at Michigan, said that Wilson has been "involved in all decisions at the top level, [although] her primary role is encouraging research...
...operate businesses, schools and hospitals, and to run radio and television stations. The action came in the wake of a power- sharing agreement reached between the government of General Wojciech Jaruzelski and the Solidarity labor movement, which has strong ties to the church. Catholic leaders have played a key role in negotiating the agreement with Solidarity and the promise of relatively open elections, set for next month...
...gunslinging hijackers. Among the most horrifying images in the intense TV coverage: the body of U.S. Navy diver Robert Stethem, 23, being dumped onto the tarmac. Last week, after a ten-month trial, a Frankfurt court sentenced Lebanese-born Mohammed Ali Hammadi, 24, to life in prison for his role in the hijacking and Stethem's murder. Unable to determine whether Stethem was shot by Hammadi or a second hijacker, still at large, the court ruled that Hammadi was accountable as an accomplice...