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Eventually, the chairman called for a forum to hear the complaints. A BSO member denounced Bartsch's comment as "racist and outrageous." Bartsch apologized to the BSO and agreed to write letters of apology that the group requested. GEORGETOWN...
Women's disappointment in the inability of men to communicate is perhaps the most universal of Hite's themes. "This is the No. 1 complaint of women," says Atlanta-based Writer Maxine Rock, whose 1986 book, The Marriage Map, chronicled the stages of matrimony. Psychiatrist Brian Doyle at Georgetown University notes that his male patients "often complain that they are not good at expressing their feelings...
...since Charles Foster Kane's immortal "Rosebud" has a deathbed utterance caused such a stir. CIA Director William Casey, partly paralyzed and gravely ill following brain surgery, was in Washington's Georgetown University Hospital last winter when an unexpected visitor entered his room. It was Washington Post Reporter Bob Woodward, who had interviewed Casey off and on for four years and had somehow slipped through CIA security for one last encounter. So Woodward says in his new book, Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA, 1981-1987 (Simon & Schuster; $21.95), relating that the interview lasted just four minutes and Casey...
...daughter was at Casey's bedside constantly. "We had our food brought up there," she says. "There was a lavatory there. We never had to go out of the room." What's more, she says, the incapacitated Casey was unable to talk. But a knowledgeable medical source at Georgetown University Hospital says that Casey, though gravely ill, was not totally incapable of speaking. Monsignor J. Joshua Mundell, who visited Casey about twice a week, told TIME: "He was in very bad shape. It was hard for him to form words." But not impossible; Mundell acknowledges that Casey could have spoken...
...year elapsed before the Senate confirmed Richard Nixon's third nominee, Harry Blackmun. The Justices postponed some of the court's docket and even ordered rearguments on some cases they did hear. "When the vote was 4 to 4, they simply stopped," says Thomas Krattenmaker, associate dean at Georgetown law school, who was a clerk to Justice John Harlan. In 1985, after Powell had been absent nearly three months for treatment of prostate cancer, the court announced eight tie rulings, although it also ordered rearguments in four cases heard in his absence. By last week there were 91 cases...