Word: solomons
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...even the most vocal critics of the new plan have been assuaged by the person who will put it into practice. This new "programming czar" has more power than any predecessor but also a daunting task: maneuvering through the byzantine PBS bureaucracy. "What we wanted was a Solomon," says PBS president Bruce Christensen. "Someone with extraordinary political skills as well as program judgment. And someone who was willing to take the heat...
...about a Ms. Solomon? Jennifer Lawson, the former film professor and civil rights worker who was named to the job last November, has thus far been getting more huzzahs than heat. She basked in the glory of PBS's huge success of September, The Civil War. (The program was set in motion long before she arrived, but Lawson approved its unusual weeklong scheduling.) She has won praise for boosting PBS's profile with such ploys as running ads on the commercial networks. Most of all, she has tamed the ornery PBS bureaucracy with a mix of calm decisiveness and careful...
...following people make up the executive board of the Harvard and Radcliffe Alumni/ae Against Apartheid: Judith K. Baker '70; Eric B. Gumbi; Jan L. Handke; Chester Hartman '57; Joel Krieger; Irving P. McPhail; Donald M. Solomon; Jonathan Walters '71; Robert Paul Wolff '53; and Lena S. Zezulin...
...challenge was familiar to King Solomon: how to choose between two women, each declaring herself to be the child's mother. This time, however, one claimed motherhood because she had donated her genes, the other because she had donated her womb. That was the issue last week before California Superior Court Judge Richard Parslow, who broke new legal ground by awarding a test- tube baby to the genetic parents rather than to the surrogate mother. The woman had contracted to carry it for $10,000 and then changed her mind, saying she had "bonded" with the infant. "A three-parent...
...finance committee veteran Conrad M. Yun '92adds "people [on the committee] are veryambitious... the type of people who want to gointo business, very aggressive, go-getters. Thisis a place where pre-business types come to honetheir skills for Solomon Brothers or GoldmanSachs...