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Former Clinton legal advisor Vernon Jordan talked about the role of the civil rights movment in his professional success at the ARCO Forum last night...
...address co-sponsored by Harvard’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research and the Institute of Politics Student Advisory Committee, Jordan began by explaining the impetus for his new book, entitled Vernon Can Read...
...regulations on the drillers. Most land-use agreements are made between gas companies and individual ranchers, and the companies offer immediate payment to pressure the ranchers to do deals without delay. "One well ain't worth much--you need a lot of wells, and the drillers move quickly," says Vernon Johnson, an oil and gas veteran who runs an energy-services partnership in Gillette. "Some of the ranchers are scratching their heads at this, but as soon as the pipes are buried and everything is cleaned up, it will...
...disguise his roguish heart with a new man's patter. He talked the talk on women's rights, gave his wife an unelected office and backed abortion rights to the nth degree. But behind the scenes, like most male feminists in the 1970s, he was talking dirty with Vernon Jordan and manhandling the help. He was a new man with an old male agenda...
...three generations. It turns out that Bush reserves his charm for those who agree with him or are outright opponents. Wooing those who, by rights, should already be under your thumb looks wimpish. For them, how about the silent treatment or a bust in the chops? Thus Vernon Jordan gets a nickname (V.J.), whereas Jeffords barely gets a hello. Not for Jeffords a dinner in the private quarters or one of those coveted invitations to dine on chicken cacciatore and see the latest movie. Forget a call to the ranch...