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Downgrading Charisma. In his first years in office, Rocky was thought to be a liberal; subsequently, he seemed to grow more conservative. But he shrugs off labels. "Politics is not really my métier," he says. "My real interest is in solving people's problems." He is totally impatient with ideologists who hold "positions which may have no relation to reality, the don't-confuse-me-with-facts kind of people." Though he has plenty of that quality described as charisma, he downgrades it. "We're getting away from charismatic politicians, which is a good thing...
Josiah Bunting, 34, joined the Marines at 17 after he was expelled from prep school. Finding his métier in the military, the Philadelphia-born Bunting entered Virginia Military Institute and earned an Army commission, a Rhodes scholarship and a disillusioning tour of duty in Viet Nam. While teaching history at West Point, "Si" Bunting wrote a bestselling antimilitary novel based on that experience (The Lionheads). In 1972 he resigned from
...result of the Pan-African Liberation Committee's week-long occupation and other shareholder disputes, President Bok set up a two-tier shareholder responsibility organization that ended its second season this spring...
...SOMEONE untrained in the ins and outs of shareholder responsibility, almost every proxy resolution that comes before Harvard's two-tier shareholder establishment looks pretty reasonable. The resolutions are aimed at indisputably good causes: withdrawing corporate support from racist or colonial African governments, keeping corporations from dabbling in politics, and protecting the environment were among the most common this spring...
...said that the "two-tier" admission system created inequities in admission that favored affluent students...