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Bono gave up show business to become a restaurateur in the early '80s. The career switch landed him in Palm Springs, Calif., where his efforts to revamp his restaurant brought him into conflict with city zoning officials. He took on and took over city hall, becoming mayor in 1988. Bono found he had a taste for politics. A run for the Senate failed, but two years later the G.O.P. takeover of Congress swept him into the House as the Representative from California's 44th district. He was re-elected in '96. Bono sat on the House Judiciary Committee...
...woman she names (long dead) was in her 80s when we knew her and looked as much like a prostitute as Margaret Thatcher...
...policy now mirrors most of the other universities in the Ivy League. Representatives from both Cornell and Columbia University said they have provided anonymous testing since the mid-80s...
Tuesday morning, fellow House members spoke with smiles of Bono, whom they described as a charismatic figure with great timing. And they spoke of a serious legislator, a student of politics for whom Speaker Newt Gingrich predicted advancement, at least within the House ranks. The liberals of the '80s, always suspicious of Reagan, found Bono's election an easy joke. He was a celebrity Congressman, popular with fellow members as well as with autograph-seekers, the second-most requested draw at members' events behind Gingrich. "The last thing in the world I thought I would be is a U.S. congressman...
...early '80s] we just expected to get a doctorate degree, back then China didn't even have the doctorate degree," he says...