Word: nixon
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WHAT DID THE PRESIDENT KNOW, AND WHEN DID HE know it? That famous line of inquiry from the Watergate prosecution that resulted in the resignation of President Richard Nixon bubbled up anew after Britain's venerable Barings Bank collapsed in February: What did senior bank officials know of the dealings of rogue trader Nick Leeson, and when did they know it? Answers to those questions would determine whether the bank, like Nixon, had been party to a cover...
...GUCCI, 64, hell-bent-for-leather grandson of the fashion empire founder, whose combative role in the company helped ignite a family feud that ended with the exodus of all the Guccis from the House of Gucci; of liver illness; in London. DIED. ROBERT FINCH, 70, manager for Richard Nixon's fumbled 1960 White House campaign, H.E.W. Secretary after Nixon finally took the Oval Office in 1968; of a heart attack; in Pasadena, California...
...better or for worse, he affects it. Naivete would seem to be the last quality someone battling cynicism in the '90s would want to use, but Davis has selected it for his comic mode. The pretension of naivete merely says that even a chowderhead knows enough to hate Nixon. It also lets him approach his monologues after the fashion of Mr. Rogers by setting himself in his own room, speaking earnestly, changing his coat and addressing the audience as though they were close friends. It's something in between an allusion to the TV-generation and a pedagogical forum...
...10th-grade level in math. At a two-way Chinese-English program in Public School 1 in New York City's Chinatown, three eight-year--olds--a Hispanic, a Chinese and an African American--last week recited a poem they had written together in Cantonese and English. Patricia Nixon, a Manhattan resident who has sent her third-grader Anita there since kindergarten, boasts that the child can read storefront signs in Chinese and converse in the language. "She has a great opportunity," says Nixon, beaming...
...when the Peninsula jeers my work and my status as a Harvard student, I know that I have to be on the right track. It's sort of like ending up on Nixon's enemies list or in an FBI file of "subversives"--a backhanded sort of compliment. Reading Peninsula often gives me the renewed encouragement and motivation to beat the devil...