Word: thatcherism
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...time - will trump windy political battles anytime. Yet it isn't only political journalists who might be allowed to mourn the passing of Europe's old political style. In the past, Europe's politics were sufficiently technicolor that they threw up leaders who dreamed big dreams: Margaret Thatcher, determined to reverse Britain's long and complacent slide into a grimy irrelevancy; Helmut Kohl, with his passion to reunify Germany; Jacques Delors, bludgeoning the member states of the European Union into taking seriously their promise to forge an ever closer union; Václav Havel, insisting that Europe was a single...
...council member Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, a historian who is the 300th Anniversary University professor, said that “there are undoubtedly people on the Faculty Council who feel” that Summers should step down...
Historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, the 300th Anniversary University professor and the coordinator of the council subcommittee, said that while the faculties of some other universities choose their own deans, it remains to be seen if that practice can be instituted at Harvard...
...Kirby began the meeting by highlighting what his priorities have been as dean and restating his decision to resign. Summers and historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, the 300th Anniversary University professor, then briefly described the process by which Kirby’s successor will be chosen. Ulrich is the head of a seven-professor group that will advise the president on how the search should proceed...
...University Professor Laurel Thatcher Ulrich announced the plan and University President Lawrence H. Summers endorsed it early in yesterday’s Faculty meeting, before professors began lobbing verbal darts at the president. A seven-professor subset of the Faculty Council—the 19-member governing board of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences—will participate in the selection of a dean search committee under the plan...