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Kennedy said that he later looked at the scene, and saw a six-inch imprint in the ground where it appeared that the student's feet had landed
Even in disgrace, Dan Rostenkowski, the former chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, has managed to leave his influential imprint. During two years of aggressive court challenges that led up to Rostenkowski's plea bargain last week, his lawyers blazed a trail of legal precedents that could significantly benefit future suspected congressional culprits. One decision makes it more difficult to prosecute breaches of less-than-crystal-clear congressional rules; it has already been used to throw out charges against former Ohio Representative Mary Rose Oakar for writing bad checks to the now defunct House bank. Another Rosty precedent...
...Drug Abuse. "Every substance that is addicting leads to an increase in dopamine levels in the brain," he says. That may help explain why people who abuse one substance so often abuse another. Fowler likens the effect to creating a biochemical pathway or channel: "A drug may leave an imprint in the brain, so that the next drug becomes more pleasurable than it would otherwise." In short, the brain gets into a rut that just grows deeper and deeper...
...which he committed French combat troops. Determined to secure France's position in the post-cold war era, Mitterrand threw his full weight behind the cause of European integration, with the Franco-German axis as its motor. Mitterrand also launched some $6 billion worth of landmarks, firmly placing his imprint on the Paris skyline. His imprint too was in lawbooks for abolishing the death penalty. The disastrous defeat of the Socialists in 1993 tarnished the closing moments his career--and his beginnings were darkened as well by revelations in 1994 that during World War II he worked for the collaborationist...
...unwavering in her principles." Elected to the House in 1972 as the first African-American in Congress from the south since Reconstruction, Jordan was such a commanding political presence that she was mentioned by some Democratic party activists as a possible vice-presidential candidate. "She left a powerful imprint on Washington," says Angelo. "Which was all the more remarkable because she was only there for six years." Jordan left Congress in 1978 and devoted the rest of her life to public service and teaching at the University of Texas...