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...Several other appointments are now said to be in the works: Brent Scowcroft, 56, former National Security Adviser under President Ford, as Ambassador to the Soviet Union; John J. Lewis Jr., 54, chairman of Phoenix's Combined Communications Corp., to Britain; Robert Neumann, 65, the vice chairman of Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies and a former Ambassador to Afghanistan and Morocco, to Saudi Arabia; Robert Nesen, 63, a California Cadillac dealer who owns a ranch next to Reagan's, to Australia; Paul Nitze, 74, former disarmament negotiator in the Nixon Administration, to West...
...apogee at the congress. But his iron grip on the helm may doom the Kremlin to a nasty power struggle after his passing. "They are postponing the day of succession to the point that it will now be a blowup, rather than a gradual shift," predicts William Hyland of Georgetown's Center for Strategic and International Studies...
...Thomas Courtney Lee of Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., offers yet another possibility. Writing in the Journal of the American Medical Association, he suggests Van Gogh suffered from unintentional digitalis poisoning. Lee's evidence is tenable although admittedly circumstantial. Digitalis, a heart stimulant, was a treatment for epilepsy in the late 1800s. In two portraits of his physician, Van Gogh included the flowers of the foxglove plant, which is the source of digitalis. Most significant, halos and predominance of the color yellow-prevalent in his late paintings-are characteristic of the visual disturbances that accompany digitalis intoxication...
...NOTEBOOK: The top six finishers in the mile at the NCAAs received All-American status, including Georgetown's olympian John Gregorek in sixth place...The rivalry between Beckford and Clark dates back several years to when the two competed in the national junior championships...
James Madison 61, Georgetown...