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...appeal as a celebrated citizen, would quickly get into trouble as a candidate, suddenly judged by more fastidious standards. Iacocca is occasionally intemperate and does not always read his audiences correctly. In Washington, at a recent dinner in his honor, he rose in response to a toast. The assembled Georgetown elite probably expected a brief, understated thank-you. Instead they got fun-loving, full-of- himself, jabbery Iacocca for much too long. He does not take criticism well; a campaign entails incessant criticism. And he frets about physical danger. Some years back, when he bumped his head getting into...
Kirkpatrick, 58, was considered a rising Republican star even before the switch. In four years at the U.N. she became known for her strongly anti- Marxist views and unapologetic willingness to use U.S. clout. Her academic credentials (tenure at Georgetown University, four books) and blunt rhetoric made her a hit on the lecture circuit and TV interview shows. She was the sensation of last summer's Republican National Convention in Dallas, where her attack on Democrats who "always blame America first" evoked a cheering response that all but brought the roof down. Says Terry Dolan, chairman of the National Conservative...
...talk of an Andropov era, a phrase that suggested a clean and welcome break with the past. His style seemed fresh and that, it was assumed, connoted a change in the content of Soviet policy. Here was a Soviet leader who would be comfortable and stimulating on the Georgetown cocktail circuit, and who would therefore be equally easy to get along with at a summit...
Liberal Justice William Brennan was not reassured. He accused the majority of delivering a "potentially crippling blow to Miranda and . . . the rights of persons accused of crime." Georgetown Law Professor William Greenhalgh sympathized with the dissenters, noting that despite O'Connor's bright-line endorsement, "exceptions like this tend to dim that line for police in the field." The practical impact may not be large, said other observers, but the new ruling is another sign that the conservative members of the court intend to keep on whittling...
...Which Georgetown University senior superstar on the defending national collegiate basketball championship squad recently had a park named after him in Central Square? Who else but native Cantabrigian Patrick Ewing who got his hoop career underway at Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School...