Word: counseled
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Around the Cabinet table, the new Secretary can be expected to provide calm, deliberate counsel. "He is totally at ease with power," says Marty Connors, executive director of the Southern Republican Exchange, a Birmingham think tank founded by Alexander. Equally important, Alexander and his wife are longtime social intimates of the Bushes who get along with the First Family on a first-name basis. Good choice, George...
...recent history by implying that Bennett had overstated his brief. No decision had been made about politicking on quotas in the future, they maintained. Bennett's withdrawal from the chairmanship was not immediately related to the issue. The main cause was the belated realization by Bennett and White House counsel Boyden Gray that conflicts of interest would be a far more serious problem than earlier thought...
Mary is not so fortunate. She is one of three people that night who learn they have tested positive. She starts crying as Russo tries to comfort her. "You guys always listen," Mary sobs. "You always find the time to let us know you care." They counsel her for about 15 minutes and then drive the van to a McDonald's for a hamburger and a Coke. Afterward they have no choice but to drop her off on the street, where she heads back to work...
...Hill veterans a sense of deja vu. The familiar faces lurking near the witness table prove the maxim that there's nothing like a good scandal to bring lawyers out of the woodwork. Principal witness Edwin Gray was represented by Leonard Garment, who served as Richard Nixon's chief counsel throughout Watergate and advised Robert McFarlane during the Iran-contra fallout. Charles Ruff and Jim Hamilton, who are defending Senators John Glenn and Dennis DeConcini, respectively, served in the Watergate special prosecutor's office. Two lawyers besides Garment have hit the scandal triple crown. Senator Don Riegle is advised...
...Daniel Steiner '54, Harvard's vice president and general counsel, on the government's decision to cut federal funding to schools with race-based scholarships...