Word: succession
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meet Sharon Landau and Lisa Cutone, senior forwards on the Harvard field hockey team. As four-year starters on Harvard's front line, they form the core of Harvard's newfound success this season...
...success in a widely publicized game against the more conservative Karpov in 1985 at the age of 22, they say, had a political edge...
...Gabriel Schoenfeld--then a graduate fellow at the Russian Research Center--pointed out in The New York Times in 1984, the succession battle imminent at the time would be one between Karpov, a political "today, and the more individualistic Kasparov. And while Schoenfeld predicted that the Soviet government would back Karpov, Kasparov's success and the very openness with which he criticizes Gorbachev today are a political sign in themselves...
Coupled with this was the problem for young conductors trying to learn their repertory out of the spotlight. An overnight success could make a name, but at what cost? Michael Tilson Thomas, for example, sprang to fame in Boston by substituting for William Steinberg and then spent the next two decades dealing with the consequences of sudden celebrity. Still only 44, Thomas has matured into a fine conductor, and now leads the London Symphony Orchestra. Perhaps in recognition of the pitfalls of premature success, Soviet emigre Semyon Bychkov, 37, started out in Grand Rapids and then went to Buffalo before...
Leaders of the domestic Mass Democratic Movement are in a quandary: they tend to favor negotiations because the process might lead to government concessions that are unforeseen now, but they do not want to go to the table if their presence offers nothing but a public relations success for De Klerk by making him look like a peacemaker. Ramaphosa, head of the black National Union of Mineworkers, concedes that the government does appear to be seeking change. "One could say they are willing to usher in a new South Africa," he says, "but some of us have serious doubts because...