Word: kemp
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Davidson's resignation, effective July 1, comes a month after a federal court in Atlanta awarded former Georgia instructor Jan Kemp $2.57 million in damages in her suit against two university officials. Kemp had charged that she was fired for speaking out against preferential treatment of student athletes in Georgia's remedial Developmental Studies Program...
Davidson, who favors the remedial program, came under increasing criticism after the verdict in the Kemp case. When the regents put his contract renewal on hold, the president resigned because of what he termed "a personal and professional insult...
...Senator Robert Dole and the senior strategist for President Reagan's re-election campaign in 1984. Paul Manafort, 36, was the political director of the 1984 G.O.P. national convention. Roger Stone, 33, was the Eastern regional campaign director for Reagan in 1984 and is now one of Congressman Jack Kemp's chief political advisers. Peter Kelly, 48, was finance chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 1981 to 1985. Lee Atwater, 34, was Reagan's deputy campaign manager in 1984 and is now Vice President George Bush's chief political adviser. Alone among the firm's partners, Atwater sticks...
...doing some fund raising for Democratic Senate Candidates John Breaux in Louisiana, Bob Graham in Florida and Patrick Leahy in Vermont. Atwater and Black are consultants for the Republican opponents in these contests. In the race for the 1988 Republican presidential nomination, Atwater advises Bush, while Stone advises Kemp. Stone and Atwater's offices are right across the hall from each other, prompting one congressional aide to ask facetiously, "Why have primaries for the nomination? Why not have the candidates go over to Black, Manafort & Stone and argue...
...angered jurors decided to punish the school: "You know how your mama used to whip you down?" explained Jury Forewoman Melanie Mims. And Juror Darryell Howell added, of the university's treatment of Kemp, "We don't want this to ever happen again...