Word: warrener
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...toughest opponents of North, after all, have included a Jewish lawyer (Senate counsel Arthur L. Liman '54), a Jewish Senator (Senate Committee Vice-chairmen Warren Rudman (R.-N.H.), a Japanese Senator (Inouye), and a Black Congressman (Louis Stokes (D.-Ohio)). By contrast, North has presented himself as the true-blue American defending democracy, freedom, God, and country. He is a populist hero, the little guy taking on the government. But as historians have long since pointed out, populism has two faces: one which celebrates the common man, another which reflects racism, anti-semitism, and xenophobia. Both faces of populism have...
...will prove to be the most important witness the Iran-contra committees hear? No, not Oliver North -- at least not according to Warren Rudman, vice chairman of the Senate panel. After listening to North for four days last week, the New Hampshire Republican repeated a longstanding prediction: the crucial witness will be Ollie's old boss, former National Security Adviser John Poindexter, who follows North to the stand this week...
...raised eyebrows by propositioning Warren Beatty onscreen in Shampoo. At 21 she took her career cosmic by playing Princess Leia in Star Wars. Now Carrie Fisher, 30, is making waves again as a first-time novelist. Postcards from the Edge (Simon & Schuster; $15.95), due in bookstores next month, is a dark comedy about a troubled young actress named Suzanne Vale. Overwhelmed by money, men and success, Suzanne ends up in a drug- rehabilitation clinic feeling like "something on the bottom of someone's shoe, and not even someone interesting." Fisher, who is the daughter of Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds...
...Napoleon, Ohio, was outfitted with a $215,000 system designed to lift 50-lb. cases of soup. But anytime it encountered defective cases, the machine would drop them, causing thousands of dollars in damage. Eventually the robot was donated to a local university and replaced by three humans. Says Warren Helmer, the company's manager of engineering research and development: "Campbell's was ready for robots, but robots weren't ready for Campbell...
...that met the President's earlier appointments of Sandra Day O'Connor and Antonin Scalia. By giving the court's right wing a decisive fifth vote, the addition of Bork could be as pivotal as the 1962 appointment of Arthur Goldberg, which consolidated the liberal majority that worked the Warren Court revolution...