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...with equally dutiful McClellan aides to bridge the gulf between liberals and conservatives on ways, for example, to get federal judges to sentence criminals convicted of comparable offenses to roughly equal prison terms. Similarly John Kramer, 40, special counsel of the House Agriculture Committee and a law professor at Georgetown University, can claim credit for passage of the Food Stamp Act of 1977. Unlike most aides, he speaks openly of his influence, saying: "It came through 99% the way I wanted...
Children are also heeding the Pied Piper's call to wok and roll in the kitchen. From the capital's Georgetown Day School to 30 department-store seminars?organized in 15 states by Philadelphia's Lea Bramnick and Rita Simon?the generation gap is being bridged with sauce and stockpot. Says Simon: "Children who have learned how to shop in a supermarket become demons of perfection, picking fruit that is ripe, examining vegetables for soft spots, watching the best buys...
Hyland is helping Kissinger teach a graduate seminar at Georgetown University and write his much-publicized memoirs. The co-author of a 1968 book about the fall of Nikita Khrushchev, Hyland wants to do another about the Brezhnev era. He also has a plot in mind for a spy novel-about Soviet internal machinations and international intrigue, naturally. He has been researching it most of his adult life...
...still thought of as a paradox that the home of the Bolshevik Revolution is much more an empire now than it was under the Czars. The sun never sets upon it. Says Dimitri Simes, director of Soviet policy studies at Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies: "A great diplomatic problem for the U.S. is that we often perceive Russia as an ideological, revolutionary state, which it is not." Beneath the vast surface of the Soviet Union, Simes argues, three elements have struggled...
...event. This phenomenon does explain many of the capital's transient curiosities, hasty judgments and fast-fading enthusiasms. But the real tone o Washington opinion is set by those commentators and ru-rninators who no longer have to join the pack, who write from their studies, travel the Georgetown dinner circuit and can get through on the phone to anyone who counts. They can report what "Washington" thinks (or even, as James Reston once did, what "a bone-weary Washington" thinks...