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Something like that spirit has reawakened in the reign of Elizabeth's namesake, the present monarch. In this similarly acquisitive age, new Elizabethans like Lord Hanson and Sir James Goldsmith appear as contemporary Sir Francis Drakes, wreaking their havoc among clumsy corporate galleons. But the staid giants of British business -- the ships of the line, so to speak -- are hardly less daring in their sorties abroad. Nor have the kingdom's investment managers lagged behind...
Under Cabot's guidance, the endowment has grown markedly different from the staid, conservative portfolio that the University held when HMC was created to managed the University's holdings...
...house, say they have not encountered overt antagonism so much as occasional turns of a subtle cold shoulder. In their case it has been directed at their North Californian "alternative life-style" preferences such as Zen meditation and organic gardening. "Oh, you guys are so granola!" one staid neighbor told them early on. As a result, they have become gun-shy about admitting their California origins and tend to socialize mostly with other Californians. "The irony is that now I've become antigrowth myself!" Margot Grim says, laughing. "Here I am, a Californian, wishing that other Californians would stay away...
Despite such fishing expeditions, the Times is a colorful alternative to the sometimes staid Post. Hard-driving local news coverage, an award-winning sports section and provocative cultural writing make the paper a fun read. Amid reams of conservative commentary, it delivers scoops on such diverse matters as sewage-plant woes and Redskin-ticket scams. The paper covers the city's black community in greater depth than the Post. Still, while Ronald Reagan doted on the Times's conservatism, George Bush merely includes it among the six papers he reads each morning. And nothing yet convinces Post managing editor Leonard...
Politics and ideology forced the normally staid law faculty into warring factions. And Vorenberg, unable to resolve the political infighting, asked President Derek C. Bok to intervene--prompting charges that the law faculty had lost its autonomy by calling in the president. In the end, none of the CLS scholars received tenure, as Bok reversed the faculty vote granting Dalton tenure and later confirmed the faculty's vote to deny a post to Trubek...