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...hoped to negotiate through him to persuade his men to release the captive peacekeepers, and even after his capture Wednesday a Sierra Leone government spokesman expressed the hope that Sankoh would send a message to his men to stop their campaign. Information minister Dr. Julius Spencer also told the BBC that if Sankoh failed to comply, "appropriate steps" would be taken. But if the rebel forces that have terrorized Sierra Leone for much of the past decade remain loyal to Sankoh, they're likely to demand his release as part of the price for freeing the hostages...
...drama heads to its season finale next week (Wednesday, 9 p.m. E.T.), creator and writer Aaron Sorkin has proved that dealing with public policy doesn't mean ratings hell. The characters--President Josiah Bartlet, a liberal Democrat played by Martin Sheen; chief of staff Leo McGarry, played by John Spencer; and a clutch of earnest young staff members--have wrestled with school vouchers, the Pentagon's "Don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays, even the debate over using statistical sampling to improve the Census. "Make the Census interesting, who'd have thought?" says (real) White House spokesman...
Representatives of the living wage campaign first learned of the committee's recommendations at a meeting yesterday afternoon at Mass. Hall with Fineberg, Mills, Polly Price, associate vice president for human resources, and A. Clayton Spencer, associate vice president for higher education policy...
Mills said he has not met directly with Rudenstine in the past, but one of the president's staff members, Associate Vice President for Higher Education Policy A. Clayton Spencer, attended all committee meetings...
...good hustler. If he were working on Wall Street, he would be called a Mover. So the fact that this 19-year-old drug dealer decides to launch a campaign to become a New York City councilman doesn't seem a stretch. Especially since his mentors are themselves unconventional--Spencer Throckmorton, a black rabbi, and Inez Nomura, a Japanese-American activist. Beatty's second novel (The White Boy Shuffle was his first) is like an extended rap song, its characters recounting struggle and survival with the bravado of hip-hoppers. But then, that's exactly the attitude you need...