Word: john
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...Last week a jury in Washington rendered a judgment on retired Marine Lieut. Colonel Oliver North. But it was a verdict equivocal enough for both the defendant and the prosecutor to hail it. North proclaimed a "partial vindication" because he was found not guilty of nine felony charges. Prosecutor John W. Keker asserted that North's convictions on three other counts demonstrated "the principle that no man is above...
...lawful conduct of foreign policy, others are convinced that North is a patriotic pawn swept up in what he called a "chess game played by giants." The heart of his defense was that his actions were approved by such superiors as Reagan, former National Security Advisers Robert McFarlane and John Poindexter and the late CIA Director William Casey...
...Alumni Association has not shown itself anxious to move away from such tactics. This past weekend Egan was chosen as the new president of the Harvard Alumni Association, the organization of all Harvard alumni responsible for nominating the 10 official overseers candidates. And Associate Vice President for University Relations John P. Reardon '60 was named the new executive director of the Alumni Association, a University-paid Administration post. Reardon reportedly asked in a speech in February, "What's to keep [HRAAA] from nominating Fidel Castro next time...
...John E. Dowling '57, master of Leverett House, said that all the tutors in the house recommended Smith for the grant...
...Murphy, John Ducey and Valerie Mulhern, who play the imaginary husband, brother and daughter respectively get funnier as the show loses its comprehensibility. Their comic timing is especially good in the puppeteer scenes, where these apparitions induce Susan to do their bidding...