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...have great respect for the good former Presidents of my country. Corazon Aquino inspires me very much, being a woman leader and all. She was able to fend off seven coup attempts and emerge with a strong institution that she was able to pass on to her successor to help bring the economy back on track...
...half the population as baptized members, attracts only about 3% to regular weekly or monthly services. Empty churches, dwindling attendance: it looks like a church in serious decline. So the media interest over the early retirement of Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey, 66, and the intense speculation about his successor surprised many churchmen. Says former Archdeacon of York George Austin: "I had just written an article saying there was now no interest left in the church at all. I had to change...
...bargaining power on the part of one of the participants. What will really happen, when the purchasing power of the University’s minimum wage declines to an insufficient level, is a repetition of the same confrontation that has marked this last year. Either you or your successor will once again be faced with a fractured and discontented University, a bad model for its students...
...hard to remain impassive when you're sitting within the reality-distortion field that surrounds Apple's evangelical CEO when he's obsessing about the dazzling, never-seen-anything-like-it, ultra-top secret computer perched before him. This is the new iMac, the long-awaited successor to the best-selling, candy-colored, all-in-one computer that revived Apple's consumer sales and signaled that the boss and co-founder was back and badder than ever. This new iMac, Jobs says, "is the best thing we've ever done...
With the exception of 1998-1999 council President Beth A. Stewart ’00, and her successor, Noah Z. Seton ’00—both well-known conservatives—many presidents have used their position as a bully pulpit to try and influence the University on controversial issues such as Harvard stock holdings or whether grapes harvested by allegedly unfairly treated workers should be served in the dining halls...