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Critics also charge that Richardson, who has lived and worked in Washington D.C. for 15 years, would not adequately serve local interests. A recent editorial in the Worcester Telegram dryly suggested, "If Richardson can tear himself away from the Georgetown circuit for Massachusetts, let him pour his energies into rebuilding the Republican party here. Let him throw his support behind an announced Republican [Shamie] who has a realistic change now of election to the Senate...
...dapper, polished Gray, 62, is the founder and president of Gray & Co., an 86-member lobbying and public relations firm located in a lavishly decorated former generating plant in Georgetown immodestly named the Power House. His office is decorated with photographs of him shaking hands with every President since Dwight Eisenhower. "With appreciation and warmest friendship," says a photo inscription from Ronald Reagan, whose Inauguration ceremonies Gray helped arrange. By day he likes to be seen with his pals in high places, including CIA Director William Casey, Senator Paul Laxalt and most of the Cabinet. By night, if his friends...
...figures have spawned protests from supporters of the Reagan tax cuts, including such leading supply-side theorists as Paul Craig Roberts, an economics professor at Georgetown University, and George Gilder, author of Wealth and Poverty and program director of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. They argue that the CBO figures are merely projections based on standard economic models and do not take into account the impact that tax cuts will have on the investment strategies of the wealthy. With tax rates reduced, the supply-siders say, the rich will move away from tax shelters and channel more of their...
Besides the inaccurate characterization of all Asians as well-paid techicians, the piece also makes a number of unsupported--and unsupportable--conclusions about the "Asian character." Asians are described as possessing "placid temperaments," capable of only "narrow" thinking, tending to "stick together on campus." In general, a Georgetown professor concludes that Asians will "work you into the ground...
...Dead Chimes is a joke on the name of a traditional barber-shop quarter at Georgetown called the Chimes...