Word: leone
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...P.L.O. terrorists violently and brutally seized and killed 11 Israeli athletes at the Olympic Games in Munich. In 1985, Palestinian guerrillas hijacked an Italian cruise ship, killing an American Jew, Leon Klinghoffer. The P.L.O. took credit for these and many other bloody terrorist deeds with pride...
Clinton aides are delighted that Dole, 72, leads the G.O.P. field. As for Gingrich, they are convinced he is sure to get bogged down in taming revolts from his freshmen. White House chief of staff Leon Panetta opened secret negotiations with Gingrich in the beginning of October, hoping for an early agreement on a 1996 budget. Speaking only by telephone, Gingrich and Panetta discussed the broad outlines of a deal that would have balanced the budget, preserved the Medicare trust fund, included a welfare-reform measure and provided tax cuts for the middle class. Clinton was kept fully informed...
...omnipresent, blatant forms are unacceptable causes an openly racist person is subject to social condemnation. Why does Mansfield fit in so well here at Harvard? Because he has mastered the paradoxical art of being a bigot while arguing from an institutionally supported "intellectual" position. Henry Louis Gates and A. Leon Higginbotham have noted that The Bell Curve proves that it is not the uneducated racist who is the most dangerous. Mark Fuhrman's racism is easy to spot and "blacklist," but have you looked at your own "white lies" lately? This is what our protest is about. We urge members...
...highlights some of the laurels awarded professors over the past several months. Those mentioned ranged from Higgins Professor of Biochemistry Jack L. Strominger '46 and Professor Don C. Wiley, winners of the prestigious Lasker Awards for medical research, to the Kennedy School's Public Service Professor of Jurisprudence A. Leon Higginbotham, who last month received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor...
...before Congress is expected to vote on the Medicare reform proposal, they are scrambling to oppose it with a proposal that last week seemed a little more than oppositionism. In a last-ditch effort to mobilize health-care providers against the House G.O.P. plan, Clinton's chief of staff Leon Panetta convened a White House meeting with industry lobbyists and a representative of the American Association of Retired Persons. One health-care lobbyist told him he was too late. "We've been meeting with Gingrich every two days," he said. "They were the only game in town." So the Democrats...