Word: ushering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Pennsylvania Avenue, the First Family was reduced to making do with just one chef, one butler and one usher on call, and two housekeepers by day, one by night. Political director Douglas Sosnik was sent home as "nonessential." The President's professional staff of 430 now stands at 90, not including Secret Service agents. Spokesman Michael McCurry reports to work; his two deputies don't. Hillary Rodham Clinton's 16-person staff has been reduced to four...
...DEFENSE OF JUDGE LANCE ITO, WHOM you accuse of taking time "to usher celebrities into his chambers," let me offer a personal experience. My wife Lynne was found to have a malignant brain tumor in October 1994, when she was 35 years old. She followed the Simpson proceedings religiously as a diversion from her own death sentence. After learning of Lynne's case, Judge Ito offered her seats in the courtroom. On July 25, she accepted and spent the afternoon session in court as his guest. Upon her arrival, Judge Ito invited her into his chambers, and during the afternoon...
...JUDGE. Aside from Judge Lance Ito's lax hand on the whip, which allowed the lawyers to grill witnesses endlessly and argue and reargue points of law, Professor Barbara Babcock of Stanford Law School observes that Judge Ito was often late to arrive and took time to usher celebrities into his chambers. "If you sequester a jury, there should be pressure on everyone to go as fast as you can," she says. "I've never seen a sequestered jury treated this way. I think the message they got was that neither their time nor they were important." Motions should...
Young Soo Jo '96 of Eliot House served as an usher. "I thought it was very powerful and it made me revalue what I thought about culture and Christianity," he said. "He was able to fill the audience with his enthusiasm...
...Committee on College Life, making her one of the most significant council members to students at large. And Paul K. Kim '96, the only four-year council veteran in either race, has unchallenged integrity and commitment to student interests. We hope these four council members will stay on to usher the body through a successful year of reinvention and of helping students...