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...Glazer’s running mate), defeated graduating council member Jason L. Lurie ’05, 22-20. His election by a narrow margin—against an outgoing council member—and his selection by the outgoing council, not by the student body, both spell a tenuous mandate for Capp, who must now tread lightly as he serves out the remainder of Nichols’ term...
...council vice president, Clay Capp can claim little more than a tenuous mandate. Capp, who failed to win the position in last December’s elections, won the post by the narrowest of margins against an opponent who is to graduate in three weeks. The executive board, lacking a clear and strong mandate to govern, should now be highly self-critical and especially careful in the decisions that they make about spending student money...
Evans is also largely in charge of Operation Student Shield, a Boston initiative launched in January to cut out loud parties and public drinking—activities that can make town-gown relations tenuous...
This year, May L. Lugemwa ’04, took the title of Best Undergraduate Documentary for her moving film, “Former Nationality”—an exploration of the tenuous relationship she and her mother have with Uganda, their former homeland, set during their first trip back after emigrating more than a decade earlier...
Nyerere's successor is regarded by Western diplomats in Dar es Salaam as a pragmatic politician who has helped maintain Zanzibar's tenuous link to the mainland at a time when Tanzania's pervasive economic problems have caused many Zanzibarians to question the value of that union. A Muslim, Mwinyi is expected to continue Nyerere's socialist economic policies, despite their mixed results. As for Nyerere, he will retain the important post of party chairman for at least the next two years. He plans to travel extensively throughout Tanzania in an effort to restore the peasants' somewhat diminished faith...