Word: georgetown
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Clinton is smart, and a good listener. Even when he runs for student government at Georgetown University, and seems a bit slick for a campus politician, he is far more thoughtful, professional and sympathetic than any recent Harvard Undergraduate Council candidate. At Georgetown, he also gets a prominent government job working for Arkansas Senator J. William Fulbright, chair of the Foreign Relations Committee. There Clinton, a character who had accepted rules without challenging them, senses forces that lead him to rebellion and reverses his support for the Vietnam...
...argues that ``a massive infusion of capital and contacts will have the best chance of encouraging reform.'' At the worst, tightening the embargo might provoke a bloody revolution that would not serve Washington's interest in a peaceful transition, says Gillian Gunn, director of the Cuba Project at Georgetown University. Most likely, the bill will not affect Cuba much at all. ``The standard of living has already collapsed by 50%, but the repressive apparatus remains efficient and loyal,'' she argues. For 36 years, dissident Cubans have calculated that their chances of reaching the U.S. on a raft are better than...
This time, Harvard will need to keep the game close to have a chance. Like Villanova proved against Georgetown in the 1985 NCAA Finals, an underdog needs to stay close...
...turned out to be a friend of a friend of mine from Mexico. We reminisced abut Mexico and talked for well over two hours. There was so much to talk about--he was a Political Science concentrator at Georgetown, I'm a Government concentrator. It was cool, we got to be friends," Peterson says. "Now he's going to come up in a couple of weeks to visit...
...kicked in an amazing 2:01 for the last 800 meters of the race and finished second to Georgetown's Andy Dounin by a nose...