Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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James Vorenberg has played a lot of roles since 1951, when he graduated from the Law School: clerk to Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, private attorney, special assistant to the U.S. Attorney General, associate special prosecutor during Watergate, master of Dunster House. In each role, however, the same qualities emerged--a strong sense of organization, an active concern for the community, and a kind of pragmatic or moderate liberalism...
...address in what is now becoming the usual way. White House Speechwriter Ken Khachigian put together a rough draft, which Reagan reworked sporadically during a Camp David weekend. Crammed as it was with fiscal details, the speech could not display Reagan at his rhetorical best. For once, the master of the TV homily and the after-dinner pep talk appeared not only ill at ease but even a bit defensive, as he spent some of the opening minutes talking earnestly about programs he would not cut, most notably, veterans' and basic Social Security retirement benefits...
...boasted no women or minorities among its 22 tenured professors last term. They noted that among junior faculty--associate and assistant professors--it sported but one female assistant professor (on leave this term) and no minorities. They pointed out that this year's graduating class from the school's Master of Public Policy (MPP) program, its premier graduate school program, features two minorities among its 60 students...
...course, they all take haircuts from the old master at his seaside salon...
...retired Air Force master sergeant, Cline had dropped out of high school in Sunnymead, Calif. He was placed in a home for juvenile delinquents when, his father said, "I was overseas, and the wife couldn't handle him." Cline was under psychiatric care in California from 1973 to 1975, then began to drift across the U.S. He worked for a time as a busboy at the MGM Grand Hotel but is not thought to have set the fire there that killed 84 people last Nov. 21. Since the MGM blaze, Las Vegas has had two other hotel fires...