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Whipple

American  
[hwip-uhl, wip-] / ˈʰwɪp əl, ˈwɪp- /

noun

  1. Fred Lawrence, 1906–2004, U.S. astronomer.

  2. George Hoyt 1878–1976, U.S. pathologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1934.


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“I was struck by how out of touch with American politics he was,” Klain told Whipple.

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“Events are in the saddle,” said Whipple, whose two most recent books document Biden’s struggles to straddle foreign and domestic affairs.

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“This is what presidents like to do,” Whipple told me.

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Last week, a federal judge issued a temporary restraining order requiring Immigration and Customs Enforcement to allow reasonable time for detainees at the Whipple detention center in Minneapolis to access legal counsel.

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Even if you knew they were at the Bishop Whipple building, there was no easy way to contact them.

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