Word: fellows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there is good will on both sides, this is the time to show it," said Jose Luis Llovio-Menendez, former chief adviser to Cuba's Finance Ministry and the current Shepardson fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York...
...school and town politics with equal, because measured, intensity. While still a freshman in law school, he ran for the newly established Brookline Redevelopment Authority, a body reflecting the old suburb's continuing resistance to rapid urbanization. He was defeated, despite the skilled campaign work of a fellow law student, F.X. (Fran) Meaney...
...Schelling, a game theorist, opposed Dukakis' appointment. To this day he says, "He could not have made his career in the academy; the scholarly writing was not there." And he notes with satisfaction that the people Dukakis took from the school when he want back into government were his fellow "practitioners" on temporary duty by the Charles, including (Schelling adds, with a grimace) "our building manager." But others think Dukakis gave to the Kennedy School more than he took from it. Mary Jo Bane, who is responsible for the school's poverty studies, is partly mocking but serious too when...
Years ago Bentsen was known as an awesome poker player. He smiles coyly when asked about a game his first year in Congress when he won a house from a fellow Representative...
...fortune made, Bentsen returned to politics in 1970, taking on a fellow Democrat and populist icon, Senator Ralph Yarborough. With the help of the L.B.J.-Connally wing of the party, Bentsen won the primary in a brawl that was messy even by Texas standards. Bentsen linked Yarborough with antiwar demonstrations and ran commercials of the uproar outside the 1968 Democratic Convention to make his point. He labeled Senator Edmund Muskie, who came to campaign for Yarborough, an ultra-liberal. Yarborough kicked up dust as well, calling the Bentsens a family of land frauds and exploiters, a reference to lawsuits that...