Word: counsels
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...Brown's memorial service, Senator Edward Kennedy called his former chief counsel "Will Rogers in reverse. I never met a person who didn't like Ron Brown." Surely the more than 7,000 people who stood in line all night to walk past Brown's remains resting on the catafalque built for Abraham Lincoln couldn't be faking it as well. Many of them, with their flimsy umbrellas breaking in the wind and icy rain, didn't know Brown but knew someone who did or benefited from some project he got off the ground. Jasper Johnson, who passed...
...Bureau of Study Counsel will host a workshop for men whose friends and lovers are survivors of violence. On Thin Ice will perform in a benefit show for a battered women's shelter in the Lyman Common Room from...
...public service; a man of conviction who often skirted the ethical edge; a keenly optimistic black man in the white establishment. His resume contained a gold-plated series of civil rights achievements, even if he refused to let them define him only in terms of race: first black chief counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee; one of the first black partners in his Washington law firm; first black Democratic Party chairman. There were many other firsts as well...
After 35 years in Washington, Dole has an astonishingly small circle. He has a coterie of old friends, including Democratic Party viceroy Bob Strauss and Archer Daniels Midland Co. chairman Dwayne Andreas, but he does not seek their counsel. Other than his wife Elizabeth, who is an ad hoc adviser on nearly everything, Dole's inner circle is made up of Senators Pete Domenici of New Mexico, John McCain of Arizona and Bob Bennett of Utah, and even they say they are not sure what he absorbs. He taps experts on specific policy matters when he needs them--including...
People who aspire to counsel him have learned they must do it obliquely. Before the South Carolina debate in February, McCain urged Dole to smile more, and like a high school drama coach, he planted himself in the front row and smiled widely through the entire forum. Two weeks ago, Dole was diluting the emotional high point of his speech--his painful convalescence--by rambling on about other things, like Bosnia. Utah's Bennett, who was traveling with Dole, waited a few hours after one run-on speech and then pulled Dole aside in a relaxed moment. "When...