Word: leon
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...York Times/CBS News exit poll, a larger percentage of voters between the ages of 18 and 24 cast ballots for the President than did any other age group, and for the first time since the New Deal, more of them identify themselves as Republicans than Democrats. Says California Congressman Leon Panetta, a Democrat: "You have to attribute the size of the President's victory to something beyond the fact that he's a nice guy. Certainly it implies there's more of a conservative edge on what we're dealing with...
Investigations of Donovan by the FBI, the U.S. Attorney's office in New York and Special Prosecutor Leon Silverman produced no indictments. Silverman, while expressing concern over the "disturbing" number of allegations against Donovan, had concluded after two separate probes that there was "insufficient credible evidence" to accuse the Secretary of having broken any federal laws...
...Leon Kirchner, Rosen Professor of Music, says he still advocates the performer-in-residence program he proposed to President Bok in the 1960s. He claims the idea was watered down into the "Learning From Performers" series, which brings people to Harvard only...
Brennan, a 1931 Law School graduate who is considered a liberal member of the conservative-dominated court, received an honorary doctorate from the University in 1968. He will join federal circuit court judges A. Leon Higginbotham and Stephen G. Breyer...
...Edmund Wilson. Peretz, a Harvard social sciences teacher who inherited some money and whose wife is an heiress, revamped both the magazine's politics and its eclectic cultural section: it covers primarily scholarly books, theater (reviews by Robert Brustein), movies (reviews by Stanley Kauffmann) and, says Literary Editor Leon Wieseltier, "anything I can find about Israel, the nuclear issue or the ballet...