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...vice-chairman Amanda E. Atkinson '89, says she finds a women's community "forms a safety net." She says that other women are "people to do fun stuff with but they're also there to support...
Despite the conservative backlash, though, recent intellectual purges have been relatively mild when compared with past excesses. Liu Binyan, a leading journalist who was stripped of Communist Party membership in January for questioning its authority, remains a vice-chairman of the Chinese Writers' Association. Liu has further confounded the hard-liners by retaining his post as a reporter for the People's Daily, the official Communist Party paper. Astrophysicist Fang Lizhi, dismissed as a university vice president in January, was promptly reassigned to a research job. Such moves have helped reassure China watchers that there is no second Cultural Revolution...
Kahane, founder of the militant Jewish Defense League (JDL), will be allowed to enter the Harvard Hillel building and speak to students on November 13 as long as he does not cause a disturbance, though he has not been invited as a speaker, said Hillel Vice-Chairman Dina R. Gerber...
...years as chairman of ailing Eastern Airlines, which is merging with Texas Air. He is also a victim of cut-rate competition: Eastern took a $111 million loss in the first quarter of 1986. Yet as Borman prepared to assume the largely titular role of Texas Air vice-chairman, he said last week that attractive prices and sharply increased passenger traffic have made the current competitive environment "a lot better than had we stagnated with high fares. I think society's better...
...almost single-handedly developed the Council's machinery, as parliamentarian, vice-chairman, chairman, and member of numerous student and student-faculty committees. Among other achievements, he produced definitive reports on freedom of speech at Harvard, after students pegged Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger '38 with tomatoes; the potential for an honor code at Harvard; and the controversial disciplinary Committee on Rights and Responsibilities. He has also played a major role in establishing the Endowment for Divestiture, an alternative to the Class Gift Fund designed to pressure Harvard to divest its South Africa holdings...