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...Communist Party but was rejected on the grounds that he would be more valuable as a fellow traveler (a rumor Reagan blithely denied to Morris in 1987). By the early '50s, though, Reagan had turned firmly and forever to the right. His confidence as a speaker and SAG boss nudged him into pitchman and executive roles--first as the host of TV's General Electric Theatre and Death Valley Days, then as Governor and President...
...drug trafficking. Unless the AUC's narcobosses are put behind bars, U.S. officials insist, the paramilitary fighters will become the new big cats of the Colombian cocaine trade, successors to infamous Medellín and Cali cartels. They took a step in that direction in April, when protrafficking bosses - led by Diego Murillo, an ex-Medellín gunman, whom the U.S. calls a major trafficker - appeared to win control of the AUC. On April 16, Carlos Castaño, 39, who co-founded the AUC in the 1980s and in recent years urged it to give up the drug...
Epps was unafraid to be an outspoken advocate of his policy stances, often throwing his weight behind projects opposed by Lewis and publicly disagreeing with his boss about the nature and aim of Harvard’s undergraduate education. He prided himself on independent thought...
...whom he recruited. Ron Rolston, a Crimson assistant from 1999-2002, currently occupies a spot on the Boston College bench alongside the legendary Jerry York, but may be reluctant to leave the Eagles, since he is considered to be one of the logical choices to succeed his current boss...
Robert E. Rubin ’60—a close Summers friend, his former boss at the Treasury and a Corporation member who has been appointed since Summers’s selection—says that he thinks Summers was chosen because as “Harvard faced a new century,” the Corporation wanted it to do so “with a president who was going to engage with the issues that Harvard has to deal with...