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...primary night, however, the old Kennedy vigor returned. His suite at the Ambassador Hotel filled with well-wishers, and as the results turned his way, campaign workers began "laughing and dancing and hugging one another," recalled his aide, former pro-football player Roosevelt Grier. Around midnight Kennedy went downstairs and delivered a rousing speech to 1,800 supporters in the ballroom. He then exited through the hotel's pantry, where at 12:16 a.m., a slight, dark-haired Palestinian named Sirhan Sirhan pulled out a .22 cal. revolver, fired eight shots and fatally wounded the candidate. For a stricken America...
Several prominent public figures will be guest speakers at the conference, including the former president of Guatemala, The U.S. ambassador to the country, the former foreign minister and a Guatemalan leader for indigenous rights...
Departing Dean Robert C. Clark will no doubt leave a legacy as an incredible fund-raiser and ambassador for the school in the greater legal world. But the complaints vocalized by law students at a recent meeting with Summers hosted by the Law School Council are indicative of the frustrations and pessimism these students feel about the quality of life on campus...
...Powell appeared to be personally hurt by French intransigence; it was France, after all, who in October demanded that the U.S. return to the Security Council for a second resolution before going to war. Powell's speech may have softened the hearts of wavering member states: one U.N. ambassador at the lunch called Powell's speech "inspirational...
Oren gave a detailed description of the events leading up to the war, from the failure of American ambassador Wally Barbour to deliver a letter that would have prevented a Jordanian raid, to an Israeli offensive. That action, narrow in its initial scope, ultimately became an all-out attack against neighboring Arab states...