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With the New Deal came the New Dealers, a breed unknown in the sleepy Southern town that Washington had been. Rosenman had urged Roosevelt to seek advisers not among the usual politicians and financiers but in the universities. Harvard Law Professor Felix Frankfurter was now sending along a pack of bright and ambitious young lawyers who came to be known as the "happy hot dogs." Washington "is more entertaining and more lively than at any time since the war," the critic Edmund Wilson reported in the New Republic. "Everywhere in the streets and offices you run into old acquaintances...
Kaufman is not the only pessimist on Wall Street. Felix Rohatyn, a partner of Lazard Frères, an investment banking house, warns that "the next twelve to 18 months are going to be potentially the most dangerous period that I have seen in 30-plus years in the banking business." Rohatyn is wor ried about possible corporate bankruptcies and the failure of some banks or savings and loan institutions as well as rising unemployment. Last week the Labor Department released figures that supported those glum views. Unemployment in December jumped to a near record 8.9%, up from...
...million, Chad has been torn by a civil war between the Muslims of the north and the black Christians of the south for the better part of two decades. That struggle ended, at least temporarily, in March 1979, when Muslim guerrillas, armed by Gaddafi, finally succeeded in overthrowing President Felix Malloum, one of the two black Christians who had run the country since it gained its independence from France in 1960. Muslim Leaders Goukouni Oueddei and Hissene Habré then shared power in an alliance of eleven factions with Oueddei serving as President and Habré as Defense Minister...
...always been the gutsiest runner on the team," says teammate Felix Rippey. "He's actually quite a talented runner but his injuries have hidden a lot of his ability...
Former committeeman John Tierney and Felix Arroyo have only outside chances. Tierney, who served in the 1960s, has a good political name (his brother was also on the school committee and is now Registrar of Deeds in Suffolk County) but has not distinguished himself in this campaign. Arroyo, a highly respected advocate for Hispanic and minority educational opportunities, will benefit from the increased turnout in minority communities, but simply isn't known well enough. A strong showing by Arroyo, though, especially in the Irish wards, would signify an important change in how Boston voters view their school system...