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...some, the newly bestowed names have a personal significance. Rennell said he hopes to name one peak after a mentor he had at a scout camp who died shortly before the club undertook its anniversary trek. Scott Powell instructed Rennell as a scoutmaster at Camp Gorsuch in Anchorage, Alaska, but died in a fire at a national Boy Scout jamboree shortly before the group embarked for Kyrgyzstan. “If there is anyone who influenced my life, who I’d want to name this mountain after, it would be Powell,” Rennell said...
...environmental matters, people like An Gorsuch were set in place to subvert the clear intent of laws like the Clean Air and Water Acts, as well as bills concerning toxic waste. On other domestic fronts, people like Sam Pierce, now the subject of a grand jury investigation, almost totally wrecked any commitment the federal government had to the Fair Housing Act, and to low and moderate income housing...
...Carter's one ethical liability, Bert Lance, was never convicted of any crime. This administration certainly outdid his record with its influence-peddling officials, ideologues-gone-astray, and just plain crooks--from Michael Deaver, Lyn Nofziger, and Edwin Meese to Oliver North, John Poindexter, and William Casey to Anne Gorsuch, Rita Lavelle, and Raymond Donovan. Carter got Lance to resign, even after he was found innocent, while Reagan ignored rampant corruption...
...hand. Students analyze actions by federal and state bureaucracies who routinely play out roles in public drama, ignoring any number of weighty female public figures. Carla Hills, Juanita Krepps, Anne Armstrong, Nancy Kassebaum and even Massachusetts' own Margaret Heckler have escaped Harvard's notice. One exception is Anne Gorsuch-Burford. But never mind, hers is just a sideshow in the public drama starring William Ruckleshaus...
...Georgia, Elliott Levitas, 53, who had held the Atlanta area's seat through five elections, lost to Republican Patrick Lynn Swindall, 33, an Atlanta lawyer and businessman. A Rhodes scholar and a liberal on civil rights, Levitas had been a leading critic of Anne Gorsuch Burford's leadership of the Environmental Protection Agency. He and North Carolina Democrat Ike Andrews both succumbed to the Reagan tide in their states. In 1982, despite a widely publicized drunken-driving charge, Andrews, 59, defeated William Cobey, 45, a former athletic director at the University of North Carolina. Cobey, who had distanced...