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...back in March, Carlucci had to pull out all the stops just to get Powell to join the NSC as his deputy. In late 1986 Powell had taken command of the Army V Corps in Frankfurt, West Germany, after some five years in the Pentagon as an aide to Carlucci and then Weinberger. He was reluctant to quit his post after only six months. But Carlucci was determined to get his friend back to Washington. When President Reagan, at Carlucci's urging, personally phoned Powell to offer him the NSC job, the general had little choice but to obey...
With the departure of Benning and Taylor--who finished fourth and fifth, respectively, on the Harvard scoring chart and were named All-ECAC--Pawloski and partner Don Sweeney have a tough act to follow as they assume command of the point on the Crimson's first power play unit...
...Ortega y Gasset wrote, "Before long there will be heard throughout the planet a formidable cry, rising like the howling of innumerable dogs to the stars, asking for someone or something to take command." The world was not exactly howling last week, just casting its gaze around anxiously...
...Republicans' command of the medium was counterbalanced by the weakness of their message. The Democrats are ridiculed as the party of litmus- test politics, bowing to the pressures of peace activists, labor unions, minority groups and feminists. But last week's debate revealed the degree to which the Republicans are tugged by their own special interests: right-wing red hots. Front Runners Bush and Robert Dole found themselves pitted against a field of yapping underdogs, each catering to causes championed by conservative activists. Haig, du Pont, Jack Kemp and Pat Robertson all blasted Bush's ardent support for the proposed...
Boyer said that "the greatest responsibilityfor leadership" in recovering the importance ofteaching in educational institutions lies with thelarge research universities, on account of theinfluence they command in the profession...