Word: connecticut
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...typical college romance. Richard Allen and Lynne Griffiths dated, drifted apart after graduation, found others and moved on. Focused on having a big-city career, Griffiths headed to Manhattan with a degree from Connecticut College in New London in 1974. Allen, a Yale Divinity student, would have settled down with Griffiths in any place but New York City while he answered a spiritual calling to become a Methodist minister. And that presented another glitch: Griffiths, an avowed Unitarian, couldn't imagine forsaking her religion. End of story...
...Capitol Hill danced giddily on al-Zarqawi's crater, they complain privately that what they consider Bush's stubbornness--his conviction that to withdraw would be to admit error--could cost them control of the House, if not the Senate. "If the war goes well, Republicans do better," says Connecticut G.O.P. Representative Chris Shays, who faces a tough re-election fight this year. "If the war goes badly, then Republicans will not fare as well. That's the reality." Democrats, though eager to congratulate the troops for knocking out such a heinous enemy, were just as eager to move...
...Connecticut native admitted he has always had a hidden desire to be a Harvard student...
...Post.Harvard website that he was “furious” about the resignation. Schneider wrote that he will be making a token $1 contribution to his class reunion gift, and encouraged others to join him.Byron R. Wien ’54, the chief investment strategist at Westport, Connecticut-based Pequot Capital who has served as a member of the executive committee of the Committee of University Resources (CUR), an advisory group of major alumni donors, says that he also refrained from donating this year as a result of the resignation.“The fact that [Summers...
...foreign policy as far from what the American national interest would otherwise suggest,” they wrote.They identify this lobby as a loose movement of organizations, such as the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and the American Enterprise Institute, and officials such as Paul D. Wolfowitz and Connecticut Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, who they claim stifle discussion of Israel’s flaws.“Israel is in fact a liability in the war on terror and the broader effort to deal with rogue states...