Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...letters from the deans of eight of Harvard's nine faculties are the most recent chapter in a University-wide reassessment of fundraising practices. Bok ordered the deans to review those procedures last November in the wake of embarassing disclosures about the Kennedy School of Government's fundraising...
Stankard, a gregarious man, has his Irish ancestors' love of talking, particularly about his success in life, which he views with incredulity. Is it possible, he asks, that a former glassblower can find himself feted by gallery owners and collectors? "I keep thinking I will wake up and it will all be over," he says. "I worry that people will say, 'O.K., you've been goofing off long enough...
...wielding principal has even caught the eye and ear of the White House. President Reagan has commended Clark as an exemplar of the tough leadership needed in urban schools. In the wake of the board battle, U.S. Secretary of Education William Bennett telephoned to urge Clark to "hang in there." In an even grander gesture of support, Gary Bauer, a former Bennett aide now serving as White House Policy Development Director, offered Eastside's chief a White House post as policy adviser. (Clark turned him down.) Tough leaders like Clark have an important place in the nation's schools, Bennett...
...broad issues that may not have clear answers." While raising issues, however, Clark has also raised a forest of hackles for like a lot of people who do things their own way and damn the torpedoes, Clark has stirred up as many critics as admirers. And in the wake of his confrontation with his school board, he has found himself under a drumfire of criticism by other inner-city principals who take issue with his hardhanded style...
...some ways, writing a thesis is like a continual series of bad dreams from which you wake up, only to find yourself in another nightmare. I am trapped like a character in Nightmare on Elm Street, and my thesis is like Freddy Krueger, chasing me through my dreams. That's why I call my thesis Freddy...