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...from a land-grant college and for its networking possibilities. Says a participant: "Where else can a former mayor from Waco, Texas, sit around and chat with former Governors and Senators and attend classes taught by Presidential Scholar Richard Neustadt?" Even government officials seek the school's cachet: a staffer jokes that he heard of a visitor who spoke at a lunch and immediately added "Lecturer, Harvard University, Fall Semester" to his resume...
Massachusetts law allows qualified students to offer free legal services to the poor, but according to third-year student Kenneth H. Zimmerman, a Bureau staffer, the students need supervisors because "realistically we don't know enough about how to go to court...
Close encounter. Although George Bush had adamantly rejected Bob Dole's challenge to a series of debates in Illinois, both wound up at separate events at Knox College in Galesburg, site of a Lincoln-Douglas clash. Fearful of an ambush, Bush's men dispatched a staffer with a walkie-talkie to watch Dole. When Dole finished his event and headed toward where Bush was giving his dinner speech, the staffer frantically radioed, "He's on his way over...
...year. Gephardt has made trade the central issue of his presidential campaign, but enthusiasm in Washington for his measure has almost disappeared since his dismal showing on Super Tuesday. The betting is that Gephardt's amendment will survive, but only in a severely watered-down form. Says a congressional staffer: "Gephardt and Rostenkowski talk on the phone, and it sounds like they are working on face-saving...
...nothing else, the NEC's members carry enormous reputations into their deliberations. But some old Washington hands fear that those reputations -- and the immodesty that often comes with them -- may cause more problems than partisan differences may cause. "It will be difficult," admitted one Senate staffer, "to find a room big enough for all those egos." Lewis and Strauss, who were selected co-chairmen during the commission's initial meeting in Washington last week, will have the job of encouraging the group to work together...