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...friends.'' While Jackson insists, ''I have no personal vendetta against Bill Clinton,'' one of his friends says Clinton saw Jackson as a bumpkin and treated him badly. Whether the slights were real or imagined, Jackson, he says, never forgot. When the two men returned home, Clinton began his rise to the top of Arkansas politics, while a flatter trajectory took Jackson into private law practice. He developed a flair for grandstanding; in 1986, for example, he filed a $2 million suit on behalf of a woman who said she had purchased a ''maggoty'' Hershey's Kiss. Jackson wrote his brief...
...meant revoking the legacy of his forebears. He vehemently denies, however, that he has done so, and he claims that his father, who died in 1979 after serving in three apartheid-enforcing governments, ''would agree with me today.'' Still, De Klerk was not a born reformer. During his rise through the ranks of the National Party, he allied himself with its verkrampte, or ''closed- minded conservative,'' camp. He was a pragmatic politician, eager to press the flesh and do the deal. He proved cautious in his personal life as well. He married and stayed married to his college sweetheart...
...will administer surveys to gauge student interest in artists being considered for campus shows, although the results will not be made public. “Anything that is public constrains us in our negotiations,” McCambridge said. NO DEMAND According to McCambridge, ticket sales did not rise substantially since Sunday, when UC members began to frantically e-mail House and group lists with the news that the concert would be cancelled if sales did not increase. At last night’s UC meeting, McCambridge reaffirmed that the HCC did everything it could to promote and sell tickets...
...group gave itself the nickname the Vulcans, for the Roman god of fire. For more details, see Rise of the Vulcans, by James Mann...
...Professor Asim I. Khwaja decided to use the Internet to better organize relief. Khwaja, with collaborators from the World Bank and Pomona College, has created a website that informs relief workers about reports of specific needs from volunteers and villagers in Pakistan. The Relief Information System for Earthquakes-Pakistan (RISE-PAK) puts focus on individual villages that might otherwise be overlooked by relief efforts in the wake of the Oct. 8 earthquake, Khwaja said. Kennedy School student Samia Amin, who helped Khwaja compile a list of charities for RISE-PAK, said that part of the challenge of disaster relief efforts...