Word: politico
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Politico Evan Grossman '87-'88 received the Rendon Report's Michael Ventresca Rookie of the Year Award at last week's prestigious Golden Donkey Awards dinner in Boston. The Currier House senior took a semester's leave last spring to serve as scheduler and field coordinator for the campaign of Congressional candidate George Bachrach...
...details made for great drama. Here was Donald Manes, borough president of Queens and a powerful Democratic Party boss who killed himself by thrusting a kitchen knife into his chest last March just as the inquiry got under way. Here was Bronx Democratic Leader Stanley Friedman, an equally mighty politico who was accused of bribing Manes to arrange a city contract with a company in which Friedman held stock. The case pitted Manhattan U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani, a prosecutor with political ambitions, against Thomas Puccio, the attorney who won acquittal for Claus von Bulow on charges that he tried...
...Eighth District, any politico will tell you that the race is over on September 16, the day of the Democratic primary election. The polls have stopped even mentioning the two remaining Republican candidates. It is a one-party election, anathema to self-righteous critics of Third World governments...
...point out in his interpretation of the character. Removed to the solitude of a country priory after his marriage to Jane, his formerly Falstaffian antics are revealed as a cover for his profound discontentedness at the current state of affairs in the country. His emotional grasp of the politico-economic situation complements Jane's intellectual ponderings--they are, as Guilford later points out, "two sides of the same coin...
...anyway. But last week a quiet imbroglio between the National Endowment for Democracy, a bipartisan organization funded by Congress, which helped pay for the bookselection process, and the International Freedom to Publish Committee, a unit of the Association of American Publishers, which appointed the selectors, developed into a nasty politico-literary dustup as the NED charged that the list was philosophically "one-sided." The IFP accused the NED of would-be censorship and then announced that it would return the $12,000 it had already received from the group and refuse the remainder of the promised $50,000 unless there...