Word: davenport
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JAMES LEACH (R) District 1 (East--Cedar Rapids; Davenport; Iowa City...
BORN: Oct. 15, 1942, Davenport EDUCATION: Princeton U, B.A., 1964; Johns Hopkins U, M.A., 1966 FAMILY: Wife, Elisabeth Foxley-Leach; two children RELIGION: Episcopalian MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Propane-gas-company executive; foreign-service officer POLITICAL CAREER: Republican nominee for U.S. House, 1974; U.S. House, 1976- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 1088, Bettendorf...
...RUSH (D) District 1 (East--Cedar Rapids; Davenport; Iowa City...
BORN: Nov. 7, 1954, Davenport, Iowa EDUCATION: MacAlester College, B.A., 1977; U of Iowa, Ph.D., 1984 FAMILY: Wife, Virginia; three children RELIGION: Presbyterian MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: College administrator POLITICAL CAREER: Albion City Council, 1995- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 911, Albion...
...excellence (in the heroic third-straight gold of 4-ft. 11-in. Turkish weight lifter Naim Suleymanoglu); integrity (in the radiant face of Jonathan Edwards, the British triple jumper who said he was thrilled to get silver and made you believe it); sportsmanship (in the tears of American Lindsay Davenport after she beat her "very best friend," Mary Joe Fernandez, in the women's tennis semifinals); and brotherhood (in the 82-kg wrestling bout in which Elmadi Jabrailov of Kazakhstan beat Lucman Jabrailov of Moldovia--his elder brother and coach--before the two went off to relax together...