Word: elliott
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...court anyway. Explained their lawyer, William McKenney: "The public thinks that when they see a blue uniform they can take a punch at it, that the police officer can take it. But police officers want to be treated as human beings." Nor was money the whole point when Elliott Jones, widow of Washington Cardiologist and Author Michael Halberstam, sued her husband's killer, a millionaire burglar named Bernard Welch. Jones won a $5.7 million award, but the IRS has first claim on Welch's assets. Even if she never gets a penny, Jones found a different recompense...
Kodak Spokesman Timothy Elliott said the matter was of "serious concern" to the company. He insisted that Kodak would hire from its pool of 100,000 job applicants on merit alone. If there are arrests, they would come under the Hobbs Act, which prohibits extortion in any business engaged in interstate commerce. Maximum penalty: $10,000 in fines and security of another sort-20 years in jail...
...what few blankets the prison-hospital could provide, all of them covered their heads when a Western woman paid an unexpected visit to the ward. Ill as they were, they still made a feeble effort to show their offense at the woman's appalling lack of modesty. For Karen Elliott House, The Wall Street Journal's diplomatic correspondent, it was not the first time she had risked offense...
After that experience, she says, she learned that a diplomatic correspondent cannot take official statements at face value and cannot be satisfied with remaining one step behind the heads of state. By reading officials' minds instead of accepting their statements, Karen Elliott House scooped the world and became the first journalist to report then-Secretary of State Cyrus Vance's invitation to Begin and Sadat to come to the United States for peace talks. The talks later became known as the Camp David Summit...
...says that more than anything at Harvard, she enjoyed meeting undergraduates. Her study group, which explored foreign policy decision making, brought former Administration officials and business leaders (including the president of Mobil Oil) before a group of about forty students, half of whom were undergraduates. In addition, Karen Elliott House lived, appropriately enough, in Elliott House. "This is the first time to my knowledge that an IOP fellow has had the opportunity to stay in an undergraduate House. But with my name, they had no choice about where to put me." From her contact with undergraduates, House says she sees...