Word: patterson
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They say a little learning is a dangerous thing. Ask Todd Patterson. He had just finished the sixth grade in Franklin Lakes, N.J., when he began compiling his own encyclopedia of all the nations of the world. He wrote to embassies -- including the Soviet Union's -- for information. Enter the FBI, which began investigating the boy and kept at it until it had built up a 17-page file. Now an 18-year-old high school senior, Patterson brought suit in May against the FBI to get access to the files. Last week a federal judge threw out the suit...
Officially the White House is authorized to have 323 permanent employees. But the Brookings Institution's Bradley Patterson thumbed through recent records and concluded that 3,366 people are assigned there in one capacity or another, most on loan from other federal departments -- a venerable fudge practiced by all modern Presidents...
Last week's rehearing was prompted by an employment-discrimination suit brought by a black woman, Brenda Patterson, against a North Carolina credit union -- an action relying on the Runyon precedent. Instead of deciding the Patterson suit on its own merits, the court voted last April to schedule a rehearing of Runyon itself. If the court reverses its earlier stand, it could deprive blacks of what has become a significant weapon against bias by employers or private schools. It will also undo a decision that has provided a basis for subsequent federal law and more than 100 lower-court rulings...
This was also the age of the "press lords", when publishers such as The Chicago Tribune's Colonel Robert R. McCormick, and Cissy Patterson of the Washington Times-Herald used their newspapers and their reporters to promote their personal political biases, particularly their profound hatred of Roosevelt, their opposition to the Lend-Lease program and their pro-Nazi sympathies...
According to Patterson, "When you have millions of dollars, you have millions of friends." The Tyson camp's slice of this fight is $22 million, bringing his bundle so far to more than $40 million. "I originally picked him, and I still do," Patterson allows, "but now I give Spinks a chance." Torres looks at it the other way: "Who knows? It could be good. After all, doesn't he come from turmoil?" A little overwhelmed, Tyson says, "When I'm out of boxing, I'm going to tell everyone I'm bankrupt." In a sepia mood again, he adds...