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Described as “one of Harvard’s most distinguished graduates of the 20th century” by Dillon Professor of Government and former Kennedy School of Government dean Graham T. Allison, Dillon served as President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s undersecretary of state for economic affairs for two years and ambassador to France...
...Factors: Pennington is a cool customer, but no QB is going to fare well with Colts rookie DE Dwight Freeney in his face. The 11th overall pick out of Syracuse finished second in the AFC with 13.0 sacks and forced nine fumbles...
...Dwight H. Perkins, director of the Harvard Asia Center, said he “starts from the proposition that [Taiwanese] independence is completely ridiculous,” a conclusion drawn from meetings with Chinese generals...
Vigor was the byword of the Kennedy years. After the wrinkled decorum of Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy's America would feature people like him, the kind whose hair waved in the wind as they scrimmaged on the lawn at Hyannis Port, Mass. But for more than a decade now, as biographers have burrowed under the New Frontier, another J.F.K. has come into the picture. That would be the one with a multitude of serious illnesses whose life was a hidden ordeal of pills and injections, the one whose severe chronic back pain led him eventually to find...
...other times in the past century has a President's party gained seats in the House in an off-year election, and not since the Civil War has the President's party won back a Senate majority in a midterm contest. Bush will be the first Republican President since Dwight Eisenhower to enjoy outright majorities in the House and Senate...