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...White House. She became virtually a recluse at their home in San Clemente, California, seeing almost no one except her family, especially the four grandchildren (Julie and David Eisenhower have three children, Tricia and Edward Cox have a son), whom she adored. In 1976 she suffered her first stroke. Her family put the blame on the Woodward-Bernstein book The Final Days, as if reading about the nightmare was worse than living it. She recovered from that stroke and another after they moved to New York in 1980. Beset by emphysema and then lung cancer, she grew ever more frail...
...Guinier under any circumstances, the move, coming at a time of presidential image overhaul, looked like some kind of Faustian political bargain. Clinton not only dumped an old friend but in doing so also dismissed the views of his folk-hero Attorney General, Janet Reno, and in the same stroke managed to let minority groups believe their interests were secondary to other concerns...
Lerner's career with Radcliffe began when she rowed stroke in the novice boat that placed first at the Head of the Charles. Then a Weld resident, Lerner also was part of the squad that earned an appearance at Nationals that year...
Professionals like Briefer and Jellis spend the money and work out the details of the party, but the reunions' "profits" are made by alumni themselves, who volunteer to hold dinners, make phone calls and stroke egos to raise big bucks for the College...
...formula to construct a multimillion dollar gift like the 35th reunion donation the whole class will make to the Harvard College Fund this year. First, the reunion gift chairs actively solicit two or three gifts of $1 million or more, which often requires cross-country travel to stroke and cajole prospective donors. With those gifts in hand, fundraisers nationwide go after donations in the $10,000 to $100,000 range. Other fundraisers, whose focus is participation, launch phone drives to pick up minor contributors...