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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spent each campaign appearance tossing out pork barrel projects as if he were Santa Claus on Christmas Eve. He debased himself at the feet of his ex-Secretary of State, pledging to keep Jim Baker at the State Department, but then promising to appoint him Domestic Policy Czar and later Chief of Staff. Heck, to win the Catholic vote, Bush would have appointed Baker pope, but the job was already filled...

Author: By Frank Luntz, | Title: Redefining Republicans | 3/16/1993 | See Source »

...area that I had devoted specific responsibility," he says, referring to years previous to Epps' designation as race czar. "Really I couldn't devote the time to doing...

Author: By John Tessitore, | Title: College Brings Red Tape to Race Relations Policy | 3/15/1993 | See Source »

...Epps continues to expand his role as race czar he knows he is venturing into the murky waters of a volatile issue...

Author: By John Tessitore, | Title: College Brings Red Tape to Race Relations Policy | 3/15/1993 | See Source »

...interview just after his appointment as the czar, Epps said associates warned him in 1980 not to get mired in a controversy over race relations. He acknowledged the precariousness of his position, as the sole Black administrator, trying to represent an over-whilmingly white administration struggling to stitch together an increasingly diverse, polarized campus...

Author: By John Tessitore, | Title: College Brings Red Tape to Race Relations Policy | 3/15/1993 | See Source »

...desultory German effort but were worried that they were a smoke screen. Heisenberg, a Nobel laureate already famous for his work in quantum mechanics, was drafted for the weapons program in September 1939. But serious work halted in June 1942 when Heisenberg told Albert Speer, Hitler's war-production czar, that an atom bomb could not be produced fast enough to affect the outcome of the war. From then on, Heisenberg apparently wanted his old scientific friends in Scandinavia, Switzerland and the U.S. to know that Germany was working on power reactors, not bombs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Tale of Two Bombs | 3/15/1993 | See Source »

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