Word: georgetown
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Kirkpatrick, 58, was considered a rising Republican star even before the switch. In four years at the U.N. she became known for her strongly anti- Marxist views and unapologetic willingness to use U.S. clout. Her academic credentials (tenure at Georgetown University, four books) and blunt rhetoric made her a hit on the lecture circuit and TV interview shows. She was the sensation of last summer's Republican National Convention in Dallas, where her attack on Democrats who "always blame America first" evoked a cheering response that all but brought the roof down. Says Terry Dolan, chairman of the National Conservative...
Liberal Justice William Brennan was not reassured. He accused the majority of delivering a "potentially crippling blow to Miranda and . . . the rights of persons accused of crime." Georgetown Law Professor William Greenhalgh sympathized with the dissenters, noting that despite O'Connor's bright-line endorsement, "exceptions like this tend to dim that line for police in the field." The practical impact may not be large, said other observers, but the new ruling is another sign that the conservative members of the court intend to keep on whittling...
...Which Georgetown University senior superstar on the defending national collegiate basketball championship squad recently had a park named after him in Central Square? Who else but native Cantabrigian Patrick Ewing who got his hoop career underway at Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School...
...leaving the U.N., but Jeane Kirkpatrick, 58, is not the sort to cool off on the sidelines. At a Washington party celebrating her imminent return to academe as a government professor at Georgetown University, Administration luminaries like Caspar Weinberger, William Casey and Edwin Meese toasted her grit in championing U.S. foreign policy and applauded her plans to carry on the battle for hearts and minds with a book, a weekly syndicated newspaper column on international affairs and a busy schedule of speaking engagements. Kirkpatrick merely smiled as talk turned to a possible presidential candidacy in 1988, but there...
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