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Park is a leading scholar in the history of medieval and Renaissance science. Her works include Doctors and Medicine in Renaissance Florence and Wonders and the Order of Nature. "She can find a story in an old coin or engraving as well as in a traditional archive, says Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Phillips professor of early American history and women's studies. Park will bring several new courses to Harvard in Renaissance history as well as modern science and medicine...
...Democrats, Blair is leading because he is recapturing those Labour voters who strayed to the Tories as their wallets thickened. It is hardly surprising, then, to hear Blair say that he is not "about to press the rewind button and return to the 1970s" or that he believes "Margaret Thatcher's emphasis on free enterprise was right...
...Major government's spending commitments for two years and to refrain from raising income taxes. Once in power, Labour would thus be defined mostly by what it will not do: it will not increase taxes; it will not increase public spending; it will not renationalize companies privatized under Thatcher and Major; and it will not, Blair intones endlessly, restore union power. Thatcherism has been confirmed as the new Natural...
Britain has a tradition of collective Cabinet leadership. Whether Blair, like Thatcher, can or will browbeat his colleagues is unknown. And even if he does, to what end? Blair's career thus far suggests a capacity for ruthlessness, and he often recalls the question asked by a G.O.P. speaker at the 1984 Republican Convention: "When was the last time you heard a Democrat say no?" That, says Blair, was "too close to the truth for comfort...
...CANDIDATE] ELIZABETH DOLE FORMER FIRST LADY CANDIDATE [SIGN OF RUNNING] Endorsed (again) last week at Harvard by husband Bob [PLAUSIBILITY FACTOR] Already has a good job [WANTS TO REMIND US OF:] Maggie Thatcher [ACTUALLY REMINDS US OF:] Anita Bryant...