Word: fellowships
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...national Luce Foundation selected Nicholas T. Dawidoff '85 and Benjamin R. Miller '89 for the fellowship this week, said Dean of Student Affairs at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Margot N. Gill, head of the four-member University nominating committee. She said the foundation awards 15 fellowships each year...
...ahead of schedule. Despite a net worth estimated at $4 million, Baker is notoriously frugal. When he went to Washington to become Ronald Reagan's chief of staff, Baker and his wife lived briefly in two rooms without a phone at a Christian Fellowship house. His Foxhall Road residence wasn't ready, and the Bakers wanted to save "about $7,000 in hotel bills." Now, at the ranch, Baker says he is thinking of heading back to Washington a few hours early. "O.K.," says Susan, "but remember we got those supersaver fares, Jimmy. It'll cost extra." "Oh, right," says...
...Truong '89 is the former president of Phillips Brooks House and a Rockefeller Fellowship recipient...
...Besides Fellowship House, organizations fostering informal prayer meetings include the Christian Embassy, Here's Life: Washington, and Community Bible Studies, which oversees 150 such groups nationwide. There are gatherings in the Capitol, State Department, Pentagon and White House, as well as special prayer meetings for lawyers, real estate agents, businessmen and journalists. One Jewish Senator, Pennsylvania's Arlen Specter, leads a Bible study group...
...most visible event for Fellowship participants is the National Prayer Breakfast. The annual gathering was launched by the late Senator Frank Carlson of Kansas, who talked President Eisenhower into being host of the first one in 1953. President Bush, a regular Episcopal churchgoer, will hold his initial prayer breakfast this week. It will be attended by some 4,000 people, including ranking officials from all branches of Government, plus diplomats and clergy, who will join in a 90-minute round of prayer and testimonials at a Washington hotel. (At one such session in the Reagan era, former Soviet Ambassador Anatoli...