Word: stratagems
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...parcel of an ongoing struggle to enhance the 'minority' presence at HLS," Muhammad Kenyatta, president of the Harvard Black Law Students Association (BLSA) wrote to Chambers after the announcement, explaining why his group would urge a student boycott of the course. "The campaign for the course has been a stratagem, the broader goals of which include increasing the number of full-time, tenured Black and 'Third World' faculty members at the Law School," he added. Clearly neither Chambers nor Greenberg could help in this respect...
Without such a surprise stratagem, the current phase of the British plan could involve heavy casualties. Echoing that fact, a chastened Task Force Admiral Woodward reversed his earlier confident talk and warned that "unless people say 'let's stop,' it will be a long and bloody campaign." Those remarks were appreciated in London no more than his earlier ones, prompting one Thatcher aide to grumble: "I wish our admiral would shut...
...make the authorities accountable to society," explained Bronislaw Geremek, Walesa's chief theoretician. As a start, the union decided to attack the corrupt and inefficient nomenklatura system, under which the government chose plant managers not for their skills but for their loyalty to the party. The union's stratagem: force the government to approve a system of self-management for the factories that would allow workers' councils to choose their own managers. Even Walesa was skeptical about the efficiency of such a system if it were put into effect. Said he: "I know we will fail...
...passenger ships ever built, then being refitted as an Allied troop transport that could outrun any U-boat. In Normandie Triangle (Arbor House; 475 pages; $13.95), Novelist Justin Scott evokes the grace and power of the great ship even as he describes its destruction and welds an ambitious Nazi stratagem to the smoldering hulk...
...suspicious purchases abroad. Through the delectable Alyss Summers, an art historian, Usher learns that Harrigan has stolen a Donatello statue of St. John the Baptist, as well as a relic of the saint, from a church in Siena. Between lectures Usher gets involved in a gang war, a stratagem to rescue the Donatello, attempts on his life and gory efforts to derail Harrigan's shenanigans. He is assisted by an American pop economist, a rumbustious Boston newspaper editor, a skirt-chasing Turkish prof, a Swinburne-spouting I.R.A. turncoat, a high-level Treasury official with the unlikely name...