Word: georgetown
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...Clinton, he never tried to be revolutionary. Elected president of his freshman class at Georgetown, he offered his bold plan for the future: "The freshman year is not the time for crusading, but the building of a strong unit for the future...You must know the rules before you can change them." Elected President of the U.S., he fought hardest for a deficit-reduction package in 1993, then repudiated it last year, then repudiated the repudiation...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Former Maine Senator and Carter Secretary of State Edmund Muskie died from a heart attack early Tuesday at Georgetown University Hospital. Muskie suffered the attack a few days after undergoing surgery for a clogged artery in his leg. He came to national prominence as Democratic presidential nominee Hubert Humphrey's running mate in 1968. They lost to Nixon and Spiro Agnew. Muskie was the odds-on favorite to win the Democratic presidential nomination in 1972, but he lost to Senator George McGovern of South Dakota. His angry and emotional breakdown in New Hampshire, railing against a story critical...
...Georgetown 73, New Mexico...
Also receiving votes: Delaware, Georgetown, Harvard, Yale...
...power-and-money elite sent their children to St. Albans (where Al Gore studied later on) or to Georgetown Prep, the Jesuits' country-club campus, out in Bethesda. Although Pat's father was a prospering accountant, many Gonzaga boys harbored a shame of the excluded, and a concomitant anger, as if we came from the immigrant servant class (as indeed many Catholics did) and were being educated, however brilliantly, belowstairs. The Jesuits' accomplishment was to redirect our aggressions into intellectual contact sports--debating, oratory...