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...military service of some kind." A 53-week program in the Texas Air National Guard qualified him in F-102 interceptors. Lieut. Bush signed up for a program that rotated Guard pilots to Viet Nam, but he wasn't called. Instead he held short-term jobs, including a stint at Pull for Youth, a Houston program serving ghetto youngsters. "I wasn't interested in taking root," he says. "I was having fun." Once, with Marvin as company, he decided to take a few of the Pull for Youth kids on a plane ride. One of them became abusive and refused...
...MacDonald who led the Harvard hockey team to its first-ever national championship last winter, did not close the door on the NHL--he left himself with the option of playing in the playoffs or possibly joining the Whalers after his stint in Europe...
Scores of policy advisors to the Dukakis campaign--including Kennedy School Dean Graham T. Allison '62, Ford Foundation Professor of International Security Joseph S. Nye, Jr. and Ropes Professor of Political Economy Lawrence H. Summers--had to resign themselves to an extended stint in the Harvard "liberal boutique" of campaign rhetoric...
Many of Watson's colleagues credit him with revitalizing the Association of Black Faculty and Administrators, a group that has become considerably more visible during his two-year stint as its co-chair. Last fall, the association released a report, written by Professor of Law Derrick A. Bell, which called on the University to raise its representation of minorities on the faculty and staff to 10 percent...
Moody became Central America bureau chief this year, following a two-year stint in Mexico City. From his new base in Costa Rica, he will be visiting Panama often -- eventually, he hopes, under more pleasant circumstances. "Covering violence in Panama is like observing a brawl in a ballroom," he says. "It's a shame that a place so beautiful should be exposed to such goings...