Word: successors
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...leaves on December 6-the date he was hired in 1983--Johnson will bequeath to his successor a department very much like the one Steiner wanted when he hired him. By nearly all accounts, Harvard police are more professional, have better facilities and hire and retain far better educated officers than they did a decade...
Under President James B. Conant, Lowell's successor, efforts were made to extend the principle of selection by merit. The College sought talent nationwide through its admissions program, admitting on merit, regardless of financial need. My mentor, John Usher Munro, Dean of Harvard College (who resigned in the late 1960s to teach in a Black college in Alabama), told me about the early days of national recruiting. He and others would take the trains in Chicago and elsewhere, visiting schools and homes to identify talented students and to persuade parents, most of whom had never attended college, to let their...
...uniformed chiefs of the general staff and the rocket forces, who both hold the launch codes. This Russian form of group responsibility depends on the military's obedience to political leaders. If Yeltsin was ever forced out of office, Vice President Alexander Rutskoi would be his legal successor; if Yeltsin refused to accept dismissal, which of the two would the generals choose to obey? Whatever they might decide, the ability to launch the missiles would remain in the hands of the military...
...allies may be running a grave risk in backing Yeltsin so strongly. If he loses, as he well might, the winners of the Kremlin power struggle will be even angrier at the West for opposing them than they would be otherwise. Others doubt that; they think ; Yeltsin's successor, no matter who it is, will have to deal pragmatically with the West...
...reporters, this spate of confessions is proof that the system of self- regulation works -- proof that a combination of conscience and competition keeps the press honest. Gartner's acting successor, Don Browne, even argues that NBC's pain is resulting in moral renewal in newsrooms around the country. Says Browne: "Journalism will not be diminished but strengthened. Because we made one mistake on Dateline NBC, hundreds of mistakes will not be made elsewhere." News consumers may be somewhat more skeptical and wonder if journalism has any rules at all. The honest answer: not really...