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...Atlanta, Maddux limited the Indians to just two hits as the Braves won, 3-2, to take Game 1 of the Series. Despite the presence of American Indian Movement demonstrators outside the stadium, the sellout crowd delighted in doing the Chop and singing that irritating "war chant." No wonder Vernon Bellecourt of aim said last week, "We were all rooting for the Reds and the Mariners...
...would have stayed on because even now I'm guessing I carry around two-thirds of a [teaching] load," says the Kennedy School's Dillon Professor of International Affairs Emeritus Raymond Vernon, who is 82 years old. "The main thing I've really been relieved of is my paycheck...
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...