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...many of our great organizations are run outof a dorm room and a desk drawer," says Seton, whohas been involved with the Institute of Politics...
...this--not to mention the film's paranoid take on big, secretive government--is familiar stuff. Nor are the principal characters unknown quantities. Under pressure, Smith's attorney demonstrates the kind of stamina and physical agility that people confined to desk jobs find within themselves only in the movies. His sole ally, Brill, a former government operative who has turned into a rogue counterintelligence specialist, is played by Gene Hackman as a funny, cranky imitation--right down to the horn-rimmed glasses--of the snoop he played so memorably in The Conversation almost 25 years ago. And, as their chief...
...Dean of Students and Archie Epps can be twovery different people. As an administrator, Eppsis an authority figure, separated from students bya title and a desk. But in person, Epps has builtwarm, concerned relationships with decades ofundergraduates...
...Iraq crisis Berger has been very much alive and at the center of the Clinton foreign policy team, as he has been so often this year. It was Berger who sprinted back and forth between his West Wing desk to the Oval Office and even to the President's putting green, working to muster all the pieces for a strong strike against Saddam. And it was Berger who went on TV to explain that Saddam's capitulation wasn't good enough. His co-workers call him a maestro--the man who puts together foreign policy and helps the President choose...
Malka S. Resnicoff '00 and a group of other House residents loudly struck the dining hall's gong each time a non-resident approached the checker's desk during lunch yesterday. The protesters then added a mark to their tally of non-residents entering the dining hall...