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Though Wilson is not known as a scholar, this does not necessarily impede her ability to make a substantial contribution as head of Radcliffe. As the search committee chair Nancy-Beth Sheerr '71 has rightly said, "The best administrators are not always the top scholars...
THERE is much room for Wilson to build on the success for Horner's presidency, strengthen the college's ties to undergraduates, and to expand Radcliffe's role in innovative ways. Her top priority shold be to reclaim a real voice for women at the University...
Bush summoned his top advisers and told them he wanted changes, including more upbeat speeches and some arms proposals of his own. As National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft bluntly explained after Bush's Coast Guard speech, "The President felt he appeared too negative before, so he's trying to appear more positive now." Other White House officials added that Moscow had made "major concessions" in its latest offer to cut tanks and other conventional weapons. They pointed out, moreover, that the Soviets had done so "in a serious way, at the bargaining table" in Vienna, rather than in splashy public...
Except for the top veteran commanders, for whom having a peasant background is a badge of honor, officers are mostly urbanites, educated at one of the army's 25 technical academies. Their pay has not kept up with China's inflationary pace. A major earns about 250 yuan a month (roughly $67), while a hard-working Shanghai taxi driver can clear 2,000 yuan ($537). Such perks as free housing and food allowances, however, compensate somewhat for the income differential. Deng, moreover, has worked to maintain ties with the leadership by insisting on faster promotions based on skill rather than...
Gorbachev also has the satisfaction of knowing that he has re-established the pre-eminence of the top man in the Kremlin as the leader of world Communism -- but with a twist. He is now the leader of the Communist reformation. It is as though Martin Luther had returned in triumph to Rome to be installed as Pope...