Word: duked
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...hear Frederic Whitehurst tell it, his goal is to serve his country. That is why he volunteered for combat in Vietnam, where he earned four bronze stars, and that is why in 1982, armed with a Ph.D. in chemistry from Duke, he joined the FBI. Despite appearances to the contrary, patriotism, he says, is behind the one-man crusade he has been waging against the bureau since the 1980s, charging his colleagues with following improper procedures in the FBI laboratory and with bowing to political pressure to solve cases. "America is my family," says Whitehurst, 48, "and I'm conducting...
...increasingly stronger Republican Party, critics argue that it is time to abandon an electoral process that they claim dilutes party meaning and favors candidates--and their constituents--from the political margins. For example, many political observers believe that the open primary facilitated the rise of former Klansman David Duke...
BORN: April 12, 1960, Bangor, Maine EDUCATION: Duke U, B.A., 1981; George Washington U, J.D., 1986 FAMILY: Wife, Magda; two children RELIGION: Roman Catholic MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: State Department adviser; international-assistance-organization director POLITICAL CAREER: None ADDRESS: 2424 University Boulevard West, Suite 202, Wheaton...
Florence Nightingale overcame a disapproving mother, jealous colleagues and skeptical surgeons to become the founder of modern nursing, but she never had to duke it out with cost-cutting HMO executives. If she had, she might have sounded as angry and alarmed as the 47 nurses who wrote in response to our report "The New Hands-Off Nursing" [SOCIETY, Sept...
...because of their trouble connecting viscerally with voters, each risks being defined by the other's negative campaign. Jenkins has accused Landrieu of mismanaging public funds, and labeled her out of step with state voters for taking money from a gay political-action committee. Landrieu has pronounced Jenkins "David Duke lite." When the dust settles, Landrieu hopes her precarious liberal-center coalition will put her over the top. If so, her win may go down as one of the Clinton Administration's most impressive diplomatic feats...