Word: vernon
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DIED. BESSIE DELANY, 104, co-author with her sister Sadie, 106, of Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years, a wry account of their lives as African Americans, from Jim Crow to justice--now a Broadway hit; in Mount Vernon, New York...
...will pay closest attention to what he says about Bill Clinton. Even before Clinton took office, Powell had a couple of feelers--nothing more than that--about leaving his post as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and joining the Clinton team. In May 1992, Washington lawyer Vernon Jordan, a good friend of both men, visited Powell. "Your polls are running off the charts,'' Jordan told him . "Are you interested in running as Clinton's V.P.?" Powell dismissed it out of hand. "Vernon, first of all, I don't intend to step out of uniform one day and into...
...early emphasis of the Kennedy School, understandably was on the American economy. Internationally, most [work] was done in a Cold War context," says Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Emeritus Raymond Vernon, a friend of Nye for more than 25 years. "But that's over now, and now we confront a world that is experimenting in all sorts of variants of social safety nets, health care, business-government relations. And each of them is a sort of laboratory...
...Ralph Reed may be the right hand of Pat Robertson, but I'll be damned if either one of them is the right hand of God." ROB JOHNSON Mount Vernon, Washington...
...Robert Vernon's performance as Enjolras underscores the definat determination of the students; and their eventual defeat does not detract from their honest resolve...