Word: georgetown
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...former South Korean presidential candidate, would come to Harvard as a visiting scholar next year has refocused attention on the University's relationship with its frequent dissident visitors. Kim, who has had a standing invitation to the CFIA since 1973, says he chose Harvard over an invitation from Georgetown University because "Harvard is the great symbol of American democracy." Although some of his supporters fear for his safety while here--he was kidnapped from Japan by the Korean Central Intelligence Agency in 1973 and sentenced to death in 1980 by the Chun Doo Hwan government--Kim says he "does...
From the moment that rumors of its gossipy contents began circulating along the Potomac, Zbigniew Brzezinski's memoirs of four years as National Security Adviser in the Carter Administration have enlivened Georgetown cocktail parties with outrage and titillation over his putdowns of erstwhile colleagues. He has waved the furor aside, saying that what matters is not whether former Secretary of State Cyrus Vance personifies the decline of the Wasp elite, or whether "the loving way" that Walter Mondale combed his hair betrayed insecurity, but the "substance" of the issues he tackles in these pages...
...year-old expansion has resulted in stores near Georgetown University, the University of Maryland and Brown University campuses. Two weeks ago, a new Steve's opened in the Walnut Mall, near Philadelphia's University of Pennsylvania...
...debate team of Jonathan B. Wiener '84 and Jonathan Massey '85 lost to a Dartmouth team in the quarterfinal after beating a third ranked Georgetown in the second round...
...guest suite in Winthrop House. "He asked to stay in an undergraduate house rather than in the Faculty Club," explained James C. Thomson, curator of the Nieman Foundation for journalists, one of the series's sponsors. Besides preparing the lecture series--which he delivered in similar form at Georgetown and other universities--Stone is expected to meet informally with students and faculty members, along with making an address on Reagan's space-war proposals at Northeastern University in Boston...