Word: georgetown
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...President has groused that the biggest frustration of being in the White House is that it's so hard to get out of it, to know what is going on out there in America and to benefit from unfiltered common sense. And so when his Georgetown University hallmate David Matter complained in September about the way the organ-donor system allocates livers for transplant, with people in one city waiting months while patients elsewhere can expect them in less than two weeks, the Department of Health and Human Services was ordered to take a new look at who should...
DIED. JULES DAVIDS, 75, retired Georgetown University professor credited with helping then Senator John F. Kennedy write his 1957 Pulitzer-prizewinning book Profiles in Courage; of Alzheimer's disease; in Rockville, Maryland...
...been married 23 years, and she didn't want a divorce. But by the time he walked out, she was building an academic career and turning her home into a think tank, where she ran a sort of salon for Democratic foreign policy makers. She taught international relations at Georgetown, where students voted her the most popular professor four years in a row. In 1984 she pitched in as Veep candidate Geraldine Ferraro's foreign policy adviser. "She was the perfect teacher," says Ferraro. "We'd discuss arms control, missile throw weight, geopolitics, you name it. I'd make...
...expected to testify that at the time of her death Nicole was on the verge of a nervous breakdown and obsessed with reuniting with O.J. All this could turn the jury off. "It is not likely to work," says Michael Seidman, professor of criminal law at the Georgetown University Law Center. "It doesn't explain a million things that Simpson has to explain. But I don't know that I could come up with a better strategy...
...these elaborate Bibles circulated in Europe (mostly among the landed elite, since a single copy cost more than a peasant's lifetime earnings), they spread more than the word of God--they also set, in their rudimentary way, new technological standards. Georgetown professor Martin Irvine calls this manuscript culture "the first information age." He explains that "it was the first time a whole civilization configured around a standard technology for recording and distributing information...