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...Peter K. Lee '94 is the sole council member to declare an intention to fill Vu's shoes. Lee said he made up his mind to run for Secretary after a stint as acting secretary during a council ROTC debate...
Walsh said he will tackle every aspect of the job as the Cardinal's head football coach, even overseeing recruiting, a chore he did not enjoy in his first stint at Stanford. He began calling recruits yesterday morning before his introduction...
...seven-year stint there was a series of explosions. For one thing, she is, as she says in a rare understatement, "physical." Paglia throws punches. She kicks people twice her size. Once she even called the president of the college to inform her that she was about to kick an obnoxious male student. Fine, said the president, who was new on the job and probably thinking in metaphors. Paglia landed one that sent the fellow sprawling in the cafeteria. Says the woman warrior: "Committees were always convening over me." After leaving Bennington in 1979 -- one tiff too many -- she struggled...
Thus ended Hawke's unbroken tenure of eight years and nine months at the % helm, the longest stint by a Labor Prime Minister. Although he was also the first Labor leader to be ousted while in office, Hawke, 62, bowed out graciously, pledging that he would "give Paul a hand...
...Beach, the residents' experiences as patients-for-a-day have prompted administrators to accelerate the hospital's admissions process: it now takes 15 minutes or less. Other results are harder to measure but just as significant. Robert Stambaugh admits that he felt "self-conscious and silly" during his brief stint impersonating a patient at Uniformed Services. But two years later, he drew on the experience to summon up sympathy for an obstreperous patient whose brain had been injured in a car accident. "He'd throw bedpans, pull out catheters and verbally abuse everyone," Stambaugh recalls. As the student doctor...