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...opposing foreign policy teams of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama had their genesis 46 years ago in the 1962 class of diplomatic trainees at the U.S. State Department. Anthony Lake, a Wasp from Connecticut, and Richard Holbrooke, the son of European-Jewish immigrants, arrived in Washington that summer, destined to become two of the best diplomats of their generation. They became close friends and were posted together to Vietnam one year later. Lake would later sign Holbrooke's wedding certificate, and Holbrooke eventually became the godfather of one of Lake's daughters. They also became competitors, rising together...
Harvard returns to the pool on April 10 when they visit Connecticut College before hosting their second home game of the season against Hartwick on April...
...disease, in 1997. He told New York Times reporter Aljean Harmetz that he had never been unfaithful or even flirted with other women because, he said, "I happen to like my wife a lot." (He married Blanchard two-and-a-half years later; she settled with him into Connecticut retirement...
...spending plans were dwarfed by the debate over his vision of satellite missile killers. "To inject and hurl out this new idea while the whole world is waiting for the U.S. to come up with a reasonable arms control proposal I find bizarre," said Democratic Senator Christopher Dodd of Connecticut. "Can you imagine the reaction here and abroad if Yuri Andropov had made this speech?" Others were appalled at the enormous potential costs of a space race. Said Republican Senator Mark Hatfield of Oregon: "It is a call to siphon off the meager and inadequate commitment which now exists...
...that occasion the independent Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman, traveling with McCain as part of a congressional delegation, was quick to intervene. "I'm sorry; the Iranians are training the extremists, not al-Qaeda," said McCain, after Lieberman whispered a correction. In Downing Street, Lieberman also flanked the veteran Senator, along with another member of the Senate Armed Forces Committee, Lindsey Graham, a Republican senator from South Carolina. Lieberman and Graham said little - and what they did say was in praise of their "plain-speaking" companion McCain - but they enunciated their few words clearly. McCain's voice, by contrast, proved...