Word: roberts
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...Jamaica Plain office. The tape was last seen on September 23rd, when it was collected from the Legal Services Center by the Law School’s information technology service. It was supposed to be taken to the HLS campus where it would be backed up, according to Robert L. J. London ’79, the Law School’s acting assistant dean for communications...
...Democrats see things, Lieberman is not the only traitor in their midst, though he is the most high-profile case. Senator Daniel Inouye, a Hawaii Democrat and the heir apparent to the Appropriations Committee - if the committee's chairman, Robert Byrd, who will be 91 on Nov. 20, is given an emeritus role - publicly supported Republican Senator Ted Stevens in his re-election bid in Alaska. Inouye maintained that position even after Stevens was found guilty of seven counts of lying on his financial-disclosure forms to cover up expensive renovations done to his Alaska home by an oil-services...
...patience for “scholarly type of smarts.” Instead, he pursued cosmopolitan interests, including movies, arts, and popular culture. Esherick and Crichton would always have dinner together in Lowell House before Crichton would run off to The Crimson to write movie reviews.Former Crimson editorial chair Robert W. Gordon ’63 said Crichton possessed a “bit of knowledge about everything,” displaying his versatility by writing for both editorial and news.“He was a master of all the disciplines,” added Gordon, now a professor...
...chances are said to be about 50-50 that Obama will ask Defense Secretary Robert Gates to remain in his position, at least for the first year of the new Administration. Backers of such a move say the new commander-in-chief could use the continuity Gates would offer, but critics counter that keeping him on could delay Obama's promised U.S. troop pullout from Iraq and fail to signal a clear break from Bush's policy...
...ironies of Fawkes' legacy is that he was a late addition to the infamous "Gunpowder Plot." Born a Protestant in 1570, Fawkes enlisted in the Spanish army in the Netherlands around 1593, shortly after converting to Catholicism. Co-conspirators Robert Catesby, Thomas Winter, Thomas Percy and John Wright enlisted Fawkes as a ringer, reasoning that his military skills - he had participated in the 1595 capture of Calais, France - and his anonymity as a foreign soldier made him an ideal candidate to help execute their plan...