Word: connors
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Certainly the G.O.P. has more nationally prominent women. Among the most well-known names: Transportation Secretary Elizabeth ("Liddy") Hanford Dole, 47; Health and Human Services Secretary Margaret Heckler, 52; Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, 54; and Anne Armstrong, 56, former Ambassador to Britain. The only other woman in the Senate besides Kassebaum is also a Republican, Florida's Paula Hawkins, 57. Although she has always been a registered Democrat, United Nations Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, 57, has become an honorary Republican with her highly visible, aggressively anti-Communist role in the Reagan Administration...
...does the G.O.P. seem to have so many certifiably solid prospects? An important reason is that the Republicans have controlled White House patronage for all but four years since 1968. Dole and Heckler, for example, owe much of their present prominence to Cabinet positions, and O'Connor would probably still be an Arizona Court of Appeals judge if not for the 1980 Republican victory. Even before feminism took hold, the G.O.P. had a large core of female party activists ready to step into high-profile posts. In part this was a function of demographics: Waspy, well-to-do women...
Among the five Republican stars, Kassebaum, O'Connor and Armstrong came closest to leading conventional homemakers' lives during the 1950s and '60s. Heckler and Dole have always held paying jobs, the former member of Congress from 1967 until last year, the latter a fast- track Washington bureaucrat under every President since Kennedy. The résumé's of all the women overlap in several places. All but Heckler grew up well-to-do in the South or West; all but Armstrong have postgraduate degrees. Dole was a Democrat in the 1960s; Armstrong campaigned for Harry...
Americans are willing to endure much in the hope of becoming physicians. Jeanne O'Connor of Staten Island, N.Y., remembers the day she landed at her school on Montserrat: "Mosquitoes were biting me from all sides. When I got to my dorm there was a tarantula in the closet and a lizard in the bathtub. I sat on my bed and cried." Overcoming these and even greater obstacles, many students attending the better Caribbean schools do manage to emerge with adequate medical educations. Nearly 80% of the students at St. George's University School of Medicine on Grenada...
Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, writing for an 8-to-1 majority, formulated a simple, two-pronged system for establishing incompetency claims. First, the court ruled, the criminal defendant must prove that his lawyer's performance is so shoddy that it falls below "prevailing professional norms." Second, said O'Connor, "the defendant must show that there is a reasonable probability that, but for counsel's unprofessional errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different." In the Washington case, the court found that neither of the new standards was violated. Attorney Tunkey's performance...