Word: porter
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...Professor of Business and Government Roger B. Porter was one of those Harvard affiliates who took the jeep from its Cambridge depot. An expert in presidential politics, Porter has has taken a two-year leave of absence from the Kennedy School to serve as Bush's chief advisor for domestic policy. And Richard G. Darman '64, a former lecturer in public policy, currently heads the Office of Management and Budget...
...will ease the burden on hard-pressed state and local officials by making it easier to charge drug offenders under federal statutes. Federal prosecutors are instructed to avoid offering plea bargains in such cases, making a prison term harder to dodge. Says White House aide Roger Porter, who helped design the package: "The people who are committing these crimes are not dumb. They know what the chances are of getting caught and getting sent to prison, and as we increase those odds, we can change their behavior...
...penchant of mainline leaders for embracing progressive causes has sparked bitter internal disputes, especially over homosexuality and women's rights. The Rev. H. Boone Porter, editor of the Living Church, an Episcopal weekly, complains that "national officials have taken positions which, frankly, the rest of us do not understand." There are also continual squabbles over the political stands by clergy who sound like McGovern-Mondale Democrats while lay members are largely Reagan-Bush Republicans. Several denominations have also lost members through conservative schisms...
...Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz, about a graduate seminar he will co-teach next year with Professor of Geology Steven J. Gould and Porter Professor of Philosophy Robert Nozick...
Dershowitz said he will team up with Professor of Geology Stephen J. Gould and Porter Professor of Philosophy Robert Nozick to offer the seminar, called "Thinking About Thinking...