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...Divinity School, with a $30 million endowment and 80 percent of its students on financial aid, is also the poorest of Harvard's schools. Thiemann will have to pick up fundraising where his predecessor Rupp left off, according to John Strugnell, Lamont Professor of Divinity...
...becoming an institution with a 17% minority representation among undergraduates. Another priority is the need to correct Yale's faculty balance of only 18.7% women and 7.8% minorities. Schmidt also is set on shoring up Yale's natural-science studies, along with a moribund engineering program that his predecessor has been quietly resuscitating...
...delegates who did not represent a national bishops' conference but was appointed by the Pope, gained in stature. He could be poised to become the leader of the conservative wing of the U.S. hierarchy. Prominent among the progressives was Godfried Cardinal Danneels, 52, of Belgium, a disciple of his predecessor Leo Jozef Cardinal Suenens, one of the great liberals of the Second Vatican Council. John Paul's appointment of Danneels as the synod official assigned to summarize the discussions was one indication that the Pope is not quite so conservative as he is sometimes depicted. So was the Pope...
...last month's visit by the Prince and Princess of Wales, Nancy and Ronald Reagan are now entertaining a King Charles at the White House. A King Charles spaniel, that is. Rex, as he is regally named, should reign longer as First Dog than did his recently deposed predecessor, Lucky, whose 65 lbs. and high spirits got him exiled to the Reagan ranch in California after only a year at the White House. Fully grown at 16 lbs., Rex promises to be more compatible with the diminutive First Lady. Furthermore, he has impeccable conservative papers. His sister...
...stars even inquired about possibly buying their division from the company. Last week the target of much of the staff discontent, CBS News President Edward Joyce, 52, was replaced. His job goes to Van Gordon Sauter, 50, executive vice president of the CBS Broadcast Group and Joyce's immediate predecessor as news chief...