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...second-semester junior when Victor M. Kumin ’43, an Army engineer on furlough from Los Alamos, took her on a blind date to the now-defunct Hotel Lafayette—then a swank destination for the college crowd on account of its dimly-lit bar. She would later learn that her soon-to-be-husband had been one of J. Robert Oppenheimer’s “soldier scientists,” at work on the atomic bomb. The couple married...
...supplements." The absence of temptation was also a big help. "These days there is so much encouragement to eat," says Leann Cruz, who runs another Philippine spa, the Malapacao Island Retreat. That's true?unless you happen to be at one of the following resorts. Contemplating a flab-fighting furlough? Here are four global destinations to consider...
...Bush forces deftly used wedge issues--particularly crime and the specter of encroaching liberalism--to cleave white working-class voters from the Democratic Party. The nastiest and most effective '88 political ad featured the hardened visage of convict William Horton, a murderer who had fled Massachusetts during a prison furlough and then stabbed a man and raped his fianc. Republicans said Dukakis had turned his state's prison gates into "a revolving door." Dukakis pointed out that he had actually ended the furlough program, but his protest was late and languid. Bush won comfortably...
...what messages it sends to their two young kids. "How do we impart to them a sense of pride?" one asked. "We try to convey that we're a loving good family and there are other families like us though we're the only one you see." Their Florida furlough and similar vacations in the future will go a long way toward doing just that...
...pitch this time. "There's a lot to mine in the Dukakis-Kerry record," says Ron Kaufman, a Boston-based Republican political consultant who served as political director in the first Bush White House. Republican National Committee researchers have already dug up Kerry's 1988 defense of the Dukakis furlough program, which permitted prison leaves for even violent offenders who exhibited good behavior while behind bars. (At the time, Kerry noted that the Federal Government had a similar plan...