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Retiring Sen. Alan K. Simpson (R-Wyo.) has accepted the visiting Lombard professorship at the Kennedy School of Government's Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics and Public Policy...
...Simpson will teach a course at the Kennedy School in the spring of 1997 on "The Creating of Legislation: The Congress and The Press," according to Marvin Kalb, director of the Shorenstein Center. Simpson will also live in one of Harvard's undergraduate houses...
...rockets across the bay to vaporize San Francisco. An FBI biochemist (Nicolas Cage) is dispatched to defuse the weapons; a wily hermit (Sean Connery), the only prisoner to escape Alcatraz and live, is to help Cage navigate the Rock1s maze of passageways. It all works very smartly. The Simpson-Bruckheimer production duo run clever variations on their macho obsessions (missiles, car chases, gay-baiting, the Crimson Tide mutiny plot). This ain1t art, exactly. But if you1re at the plex and need to choose between The Rock and a Cruise place, it1s no choice...
Asking clever questions is also part of the Oxford Union tradition. Nick Howard, son of Home Secretary Michael Howard, asked Simpson what sort of reception he thought he would receive from God on Judgment Day. Well, replied Simpson, "I haven't exactly been monogamous." Otherwise, his conscience is clear. "In terms of these murders," he said, "I feel at peace with myself...
...students were satisfied, even charmed, by Simpson. "I went in hostile because of the domestic-violence thing," says student Jane Labous. "But basically he exonerated himself." Which is also what Richard Nixon did in 1978 when he made his first university appearance after his resignation at the Oxford Union. Like Simpson, Nixon said his conscience was clear. And like Simpson, the disgraced President hoped a kind and courteous reception in England would begin to turn the tide of public opinion at home. For Nixon, it worked. In Simpson's case, the jury may be out for a very long time...