Word: washingtonization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Maybe he'll give you some personal grooming tips too. Sam Donaldson, King of the Unibrow, but perhaps better known for his work as chief House correspondent and co-host of "The Week with Cokie Roberts and Sam Donaldson" for ABC, brings The View from Washington courtesy of the IOP. ARCO Forum, Littauer Building, KSG. 495-1360. 4 p.m. FREE...
Still, Harvard should take a lead role in pressing for the change. As we saw last May during debate over the Riggs amendment, which would have stripped funds from colleges and universities with affirmative action programs. Harvard can wield considerable influence in Washington. Pushing for an end to a law that penalizes law schools for following their consciences would be another good use of that prestige...
...WASHINGTON: Harry A. Blackmun, one of the most controversial Supreme Court Justices in American history, has died at age 90 from complications stemming from hip surgery. Appointed to the bench in 1970 by Richard Nixon, Blackmun, a lifelong Republican, will nonetheless be remembered for his liberal instincts, most famously his 1973 majority opinion that legalized abortion. The impact of that decision was explosive and enduring. Blackmun himself received some 60,000 pieces of hate mail (all of which he read) that called him a murderer and an agent of genocide...
...talked to him as late as midnight the night before [the announcement], and he was still struggling," said Ron Rosenblith, a former member of Kerry's Washington staff and a long-time adviser...