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...both classrooms, photographs of Mari Matsuda, a prominent Asian American law professor currently teaching at Georgetown, had been superimposed on one of the paintings that hang on the walls...
After graduating from Hot Springs High in 1964, Clinton entered Georgetown University, where, according to an account he gave the Washington Post, at least one philosophy professor, Otto Hentz, thought his papers were so impressive that he should consider becoming a Jesuit priest. Hentz was surprised to learn that Clinton was not even a Catholic. From the time he was at Oxford through his years at Yale Law School and up through his election as attorney general of Arkansas in 1976 at age 30, Clinton was, by his own description, an "uneven churchgoer for a long time." But his defeat...
...food in all its varieties, he is a well-known workaholic; he supposedly sails for relaxation, but he sails alone. His total devotion to work is generally given as the explanation why his first marriage failed and why he hasn't remarried. He lives alone in a disorganized Georgetown row house piled high with books (his latest read: a McNamara biography). An associate says Aspin's idea of a vacation is "thinking defense in a different setting...
...Atlanta, the Westminster School--an elite college prep school with a historically Christian focus--has succumbed after a year of pressure to do away with its policy of only hiring Christian faculty. Several prestigious colleges, such as Georgetown University, had stopped sending recruiters to the school, and had suggested that Westminster's "exclusionary" policy would jeopardize the college admissions chances of its students...
Kantor, 53, was born in Nashville, Tennessee, where his family ran a furniture store near one of the sites of the Grand Ole Opry. He became a star shortstop on the baseball squad at Vanderbilt, and served four years in the Navy before studying law at Georgetown. While at the Los Angeles law firm of Manatt, Phelps, he helped elect politicians in the city and state and then represented clients -- including Occidental Petroleum and Lockheed -- in their dealings with government. He has usually supported liberal Democrats with strong ties to corporate interests: Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, former Vice President...