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Undergraduate Council, Vice-Pres. & Treasurer; Levenson Teaching Prize Comm., Co-Chair; International Relations Council, Vice-Pres. & Sec.; Model United Nations, Secretariat; Harvard College Fund Student Phonathon Program, Supervisor...
...then belatedly and sheepishly realized that the shoes have spikes. Johnson's only real competition in the 400, world-record holder Butch Reynolds, pulled a hamstring in his semifinal, so the thrill of the final lay in the widening distance between Johnson and his rivals--it was like watching Secretariat in the Belmont. Unpressed, he won his 55th straight 400 in 43.39, an Olympic record just 0.2 sec. off Reynolds' world standard. "I'll get that record eventually," said Johnson, pulling on a T shirt that read DANGER ZONE. "But now I think about the 200. Danger Zone--that...
...impeccable--Mama was Solar Slew, a daughter of Seattle Slew, but Papa was a rolling stone named Palace Music. Only 18 months ago, Cigar was a nondescript bay five-year-old with two victories in 13 starts. Today he is the nicest thing to happen to horse racing since Secretariat...
Despite such inspiring beginnings, the parliament of nations at 50 has aged into such a rattletrap that its gruffest champions acknowledge design flaws. More than ever, the Secretariat appears to be a papermaking machine, the General Assembly an unwieldy debating society, and the mishmash of agencies spread around the globe a swamp into which good intentions can sink with barely a trace. Above all, the paramount U.N. duty of keeping the peace is in disgrace. All those recent ambitions of using the Security Council as the vehicle of a post-cold war new world order, with the Permanent Five members...
Joseph Connor, former chief of the U.S. accounting firm Price Waterhouse, last May became the first businessman ever to be put in charge of U.N. administration and management. He has begun rigorous management-training and performance-evaluation systems for Secretariat employees, which could be the first steps toward creating a professional international civil service in place of what now amounts to a gargantuan political-patronage system...