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...Dingman, who has a Master’s degree from the Harvard School of Education, does not fit the mold of previous freshmen deans, who have typically held doctorates, and all of whom have held terminating degrees in their field. Nathans holds a Ph.D. in history...
Salazar doesn't fit the Democratic stereotype in any case. Like many in his party, he favors protecting the outdoors; as an attorney, he practiced environmental law, among other things, and wrote the pro-environment Great Outdoors Colorado amendment to the state constitution. But unlike hard-line environmentalists, he is a staunch friend of agriculture. A sign on his desk reads NO FARMS--NO FOOD...
...Congressman since 1998, DeMint was touted as the White House's first choice to seek the seat being vacated by Democratic veteran Fritz Hollings. But the fit wasn't an entirely natural one for an Administration that prizes loyalty above all things. In the House, DeMint voted to give the President the authority to conduct fast-track trade negotiations with foreign countries, but only after extracting a list of concessions to protect South Carolina's textile industry. He also voted against one of Bush's legislative crown jewels, the Medicare prescription-drug benefit, worried that it was too costly...
...appears to have been a typical second-generation child of Moroccan parents. He was by all accounts a good student, and his family attended a moderate mosque. He may have moved toward fundamentalist Islam after the death of his mother two years ago. Though he initially sought to fit into Dutch culture, he may have faced the same dilemma as other young Dutch Muslims, caught between their parents' old Islamic ways and an unaccepting modern Dutch society. "They're living between two different worlds," says Van Houcke. "They can feel in 1,001 ways that we consider them lower than...
...DIED. THEODORE TAYLOR, 79, theoretical physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory during the cold war who specialized in designing smaller, more powerful atom bombs - and then became a fierce antinuclear campaigner; in Silver Spring, Maryland. His "Davy Crockett" - a 23-kg device that fit in a suitcase - outpowered the lab's 4,091-kg "Little Boy" bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima. In the mid-1960s Taylor, alarmed at the proliferation of the devices, became a self-described "nuclear dropout." "My work at Los Alamos had been so intellectually stimulating but so insane," he said...