Word: als
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...temporary post at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Not as hard as it sounds, since the school offers a wide array of fellowships for mid-career bureaucrats and displaced politicians. The nameplates along the corridors (Joseph Nye, Al Carnesale, Robert Murray, Robert Reich, Graham Allison) read like a government-in-exile, and old articles are being recycled daily into speech drafts...
...frustrating legal cases inside out. Almost since the first report last November that Brawley, a black teenager from Wappingers Falls, N.Y., had been abducted and raped by six white men, officials investigating the matter had been stymied. The reason: at the prompting of three controversial advisers -- the Rev. Al Sharpton and Attorneys Alton Maddox Jr. and C. Vernon Mason -- Brawley and her family had refused to cooperate with the inquiry. Seeming to confirm growing suspicions about the case, Perry McKinnon, a private investigator and former assistant to Sharpton, told the New York Daily News that the whole story...
...self-proclaimed `spokesmen' for the Black community--Rev. Al Sharpton. C. Vernon Mason and Alton Maddox--have been giving advice to Ms. Brawley, the teenage girl who alleges that she was kidnapped, raped and abused for four days by a group of whites in upstate New York...
...that time, there may not be a case to prosecute. Tawana's story has grown less and less credible over time. Medical tests taken after the alleged crimes seem to contradict her story. Percy McKinnon, one of the Rev. Al's former lieutenants, has said publicly that the case is a hoax...
...Dukakis, the White House represented a chance to sprinkle Massachusetts Miracle-Gro on the rest of the nation. Sure, these rationales are intellectually flimsy, but they gave Bush and Dukakis a steadiness that most of their rivals lacked. Jesse Jackson prospered because of the clarity of his mission, while Al Gore and Bob Dole learned the folly of aimless ambition...