Word: duos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...transform the court overnight. By losing Burger and gaining Scalia, Reagan is in a narrow sense simply replacing one conservative with another. Nevertheless, Rehnquist, a shrewd intellect and popular figure on the court, promises to be a much more forceful leader than the plodding, standoffish Burger. "The Rehnquist-Scalia duo is infinitely more dynamic than the conservative wing was with Burger at the helm," says Constitutional Scholar Laurence Tribe of Harvard Law School. "I would be extremely surprised if over the next several years the effect is not to push the court to the right considerably...
...together they start acting. Often they do it before capacity audiences in the Loeb mainstage or Experimental theaters, in the basement of Adams House, or in Ronis's own room, where they have staged unusual theatrical events for crowds as small as 15. But the highly touted acting-directing duo saves some of their most original work for daily conversation, where they have been known to talk, "in character," as one friend puts it, from sunrise to sunset...
...Rosenberg '86 and fellow senior Rhonda J. Roberts '86 also scuttled plans for Europe after "our parents decided we weren't going," Rosenberg says. Parental concern peaked "right around spring break," and the duo soon abandoned what had been very sketchy plans to travel through Great Britain...
Carey asked Cuomo to run with him as Lieutenant Governor in 1978, and the duo won easily. Within a year, however, there was tension between them, and Cuomo began thinking about challenging his benefactor. By the time Carey announced that he would not seek re-election in 1982, Cuomo was primed. But there was one thing he had not counted on: Ed Koch. After the mayor decided to seek the nomination, Cuomo's support suddenly became scarce...
...doubles play, the Stanford duo of Patty Fendick and Leigh Anne Eldredge defeated Vigna and Smith, 6-1, 7-5. Cari Hagey and Stephanie Savides edged Boss and Berkman, 6-4, 7-6 (with a 7-5 tiebreaker), while Kay Tittle and Marianne Werdell knocked Austrian and Buchsbaum...