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...Reagan era. Sources say he is far from handing down decisions on other major players at HUD, including Pierce and former executive assistant, Deborah Gore Dean. Meanwhile, Dean, who allegedly awarded millions in grants to politically well-connected Republican consultants, has opened an antiques shop in Georgetown to help pay her lawyers...
...student. As a high schooler, he was selected a senator in Boys Nation, an annual promotion by the American Legion in Washington, and he got to visit the White House and meet President Kennedy. He came home starry-eyed and fixed on politics as his career. He enrolled at Georgetown University largely to be near the Congress he hoped one day to enter. Then came Oxford, on a Rhodes scholarship, and Yale Law School, where he met the brightest woman in the class, Hillary Rodham -- today a successful lawyer and a feminist who did not call herself Mrs. Clinton until...
...think it wasn't the best financial decision to go to law school," says Kathy Woods, who is still seeking work after graduating from the University of California's Hastings law school last spring. "I was a waitress over Christmas," she says. Laments a jobless graduate of the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service who has lived at home since he left school last May: "Of the 30 or so people I graduated with and am closest to, I know of just three who have professional jobs. Others are receptionists or doing things like waiting tables. A lot are going...
...grew up poor in the southwest Arkansas town of Hope (pop. 10,000). But Clinton was Hope's Doogie Howser, succeeding at everything he tried, the darling of his teachers and one of the first from the area to go to college. He got his bachelor's degree at Georgetown University, won a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford, then went on to Yale Law School, where he met his wife Hillary. By 1979, 32 years old and back in Arkansas, he was the youngest Governor in the country...
...campaign performances are polished and full of specifics. When Clinton delivered a speech at Georgetown in October, there were whoops as he lambasted the greedheads on Wall Street and the drug dealers of Mean Street, and again when he laced into George Bush for dividing the country by using the oldest tactic in the book: "You find the most economically insecure white people, and you scare the living daylights out of them." At a fund raiser for Illinois Democrats, he showed he can make the case that America is wasting much of its young generation. "It's a long, long...