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Though a distinguished 25-year law veteran andformer federal district court judge nominee, Hopeis known as much for her status as a Washingtoninsider as for her work as a transportationlawyer. Holding on to many of the connections shemade 25 years ago as a law student, Hope has keptclose ties to prominent Republican figures likeSecretary of Labor Elizabeth H. Dole and Sen.Robert Dole...
Hope met her husband, Anthony J. Hope, son of comedian Bob Hope, while he was also attending the Law School. Anthony Hope, also a lawyer, ran unsuccessfully for Congress in California's 21st district in 1986. The Hopes' son, Zachary, is a Harvard sophomore...
...believe it can be made comfortable with spacious, well-lighted enclosures and liberal use of plants that grow indoors. "Creating an illusion is not so difficult as one might think," says Shoji Takahashi, chief engineer for Asahi Television, which built a studio 66 ft. below Tokyo's fashionable Roppongi district. "When it's raining up there, we use a special shower to create a rainy night in the underground studio...
...front of the Ralphola Taylor Community Center in the tough Newfield district of Bridgeport, Conn., Bob Doss gazes down at a slashed cat somebody killed just for fun. Nearby, sullen men eye a fence hawking boom boxes. The Taylor Center is home court for Doss's Upward Bound Academy basketball team. "Not a pastoral setting," says the 6-ft. 6-in. Doss, 40, who grew up in a Bridgeport housing project. "But then, we're not a pastoral academy...
Retired General Gustavo Alvarez Martinez, former head of the Honduran armed forces, left his fortress-like home in Tegucigalpa's posh Florencia Norte district just after 10 a.m. His driver was taking him to purchase a Bible and visit his brother. At an intersection three blocks away, as many as six guerrillas toting submachine guns sprayed Alvarez's car with bullets as he pleaded, "Don't do this to me!" The left-wing Popular Liberation Movement, known as the Cinchoneros, claimed responsibility for the deaths of Alvarez and his driver...