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...sure, Bok was a marked improvement over his predecessor, Nathan M. Pusey '28. Pusey left Harvard a controversial and highly unpopular president, notorious for calling in the police to break up a 1969 takeover of University Hall...
...that Bernie Aronson knew about Yuri Pavlov before they met last June had been gleaned from the transcripts of Pavlov's meetings with Elliott Abrams, Aronson's predecessor as State's top Latin American hand. In keeping with the nature of Soviet-American relations during the Reagan era, the Pavlov-Abrams sessions were contentious and polemical. Aronson feared he would confront a tough hard-liner -- and Pavlov felt the same way. Instead, each found a kindred spirit. If Pavlov were an American, he would probably be a liberal Democrat. The two diplomats now describe themselves as friends, and Aronson...
...politically. Albania even broke relations with the Soviet Union in 1961 and China in 1978 after those powers experimented with early liberalization programs. Since he succeeded the late dictator Enver Hohxa in 1985, President Ramiz Alia, 65, has only gradually modified the most egregious of his predecessor's restrictive policies...
...Council of Churches had originally planned to kill off its 1952 version once the new rendition was out, but has decided to keep it available for at least five more years because of popular demand. For good reason: the new text reads best when it sticks closest to its predecessor...
Garrett's dismissal followed months of hallway rumors, infighting, standoffs, bluffs and clashes between the fiercely independent editor and his predecessor, Gilbert Grosvenor, now president and chairman of the National Geographic Society. Scion of the founding family, Grosvenor follows in the footsteps of his great-grandfather, Alexander Graham Bell, in running the world's largest nonprofit scientific and educational institution...