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While attending East Meadow High School, Evan played several sports--he says he was a "decent basketball player." He played trumpet in what he described as his high school's "bad jazz band...

Author: By Brian R. Hecht, | Title: All Politics Is Personal | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

...didn't feel the perception that I had done a good job," Mandery says. "I didn't feel any personal warmth. I didn't feel as if the time I'd put in was appreciated. I wanted people to say 'Evan Mandery did a decent job. Thank...

Author: By Brian R. Hecht, | Title: All Politics Is Personal | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

Wright on most counts is basically honest and decent. He has the right to shout into the rising storm that is battering him that he should not be judged guilty until he is tried. It is logical for him to mount a tactical defense detailing dates, times, dollars, his service to the House for 34 years. These are the tidy rituals of comradeship and parliamentary procedure that are so dear and so binding to those denizens of the Capitol. Wright is correct that the media convulsion about human rectitude or the lack of it is unrealistic, often unfair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: The Speaker Should Step Down | 4/24/1989 | See Source »

...dozen or so people who had gathered to watch the rescue, everyone was "very, very decent to me," Lonoff said...

Author: By Adam E. Pachter, | Title: Administrator Held Captive | 4/17/1989 | See Source »

...said his wife was "a good decent, caring, thoroughly honorable person" and he would "damn well fight to protect her honor and integrity from any challenge from any source whatever the cost...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wright Refutes Charges of Misconduct | 4/14/1989 | See Source »

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