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Without clear constitutional guidelines about how to handle the power vacuum, there are certain to be palace intrigues ahead, as Kremlin bureaucrats, eager to strengthen the President's failing grip on power, face a challenge from members of Chernomyrdin's team, moving to assert their authority in anticipation of the day when their boss will be in charge. So, after a season of decline, the fine art of Kremlin watching may be poised for a comeback...
Martin warns that Promise Keepers must keep alert for all the usual pitfalls facing fast-growing revival movements: financial monkeyshines, personal malfeasance and demagoguery. "There is no doubt that the leaders of the religious right will see this as a major resource," he notes, "and seek to strengthen ties with it. There is a danger it might be hijacked." (In fact, Promise Keepers has no official position on abortion, and its disapproval of homosexuality is stated in considerably more neutral terms than McCartney's own brutal remarks in the past.) Martin also shares with some of the movement's feminist...
This connection would not only benefit the students, but also the University. Having more connection between the faculty and the administration would act to strengthen relationships between the two. As Lewis said, "The [current] senior tutors are an excellent group, but the image that the faculty has of the Ad[ministrative] Board changes when the senior administrators are not the people they see in faculty meetings." By encouraging more faculty to act as senior tutors, the university would presumably be opening up a more diverse and presumably more talented pool of administrators. Such a policy could also create a pool...
...absence of a sustained international commitment led by the United States, there an be no lasting security arrangement in the Balkans. Media "hawks" suggest we should strengthen Bosnian forces rather than commit our own troops to securing peace...
...tries to promote interest in Latin America at Harvard, provide support for faculty and student research and helps to strengthen Harvard's ties to Latin America," he says...