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  Lee P. Brown - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lee Brown also served on the national scene as the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (or "Drug Czar") for the Clinton administration.
Brown is past President of the International Association of Chiefs of Police and is involved in a number of professional and community organizations.
Brown's 2001 reelection was one of the last major political campaigns supported by the Houston-based Enron Corporation, which collapsed in a financial scandal only days after Brown's reelection.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lee_P._Brown   (1221 words)

  
 The HistoryMakers
Brown became chairman and professor of the Department of Administration of Justice at Portland State University in 1968.
As Houston, Texas' chief of police, from 1982 to 1990, Brown developed Neighborhood Oriented Policing, widely recognized as a community policing, which ahs been adopted by 70% of the police departments in the U.S.A. From 1990 to 1992, he was police commissioner of New York City.
Today, Brown is chairman and CEO of Brown Group International, which uses the extensive expertise of its founder to develop solutions to complex problems in public safety, home land security, crisis management, government relations, international trade, and other concerns.
thehistorymakers.com /biography/biography.asp?bioindex=937&...   (404 words)

  
 Biography of Lee P. Brown, Director of ONDCP   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-01)
Lee P. Brown is the Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP).
Brown returned to Portland in 1975 to serve as Sheriff of Multnomah County.
Brown received a Doctorate in Criminology from the University of California at Berkeley in 1970; a Masters in Criminology from the University of California at Berkeley in 1968; a Masters in Sociology from San Jose State University in 1964 and a Bachelors in Criminology from Fresno State University in 1961.
clinton1.nara.gov /White_House/EOP/ondcp/html/Lee_Brown.html   (375 words)

  
 Former "Drug Czar" Lee Brown Elected Mayor of Houston   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-01)
Lee Brown, Ph.D. (D), former Clinton administration "drug czar," was elected mayor of Houston, Texas, defeating businessman Rob Mosbacher (R).
Brown served as Houston's police chief from 1982 to 1990, after serving in similar posts in Atlanta, Georgia, and Portland, Oregon.
Brown was sworn in as mayor on January 2.
www.ndsn.org /jan98/netnews.html   (319 words)

  
 Houston's Lee P. Brown A Can-Do Mayor For A Can-Do City - Houston, Texas Ebony - Find Articles
But the 61-year-old politician's uncanny ability to become one with even the toughest crowds, and have the union seem as natural as it is peculiar, as true as it is tried, is one of the reasons he has risen from the son of migrant grape pickers to become the first African-American mayor of Houston.
When he was 5 years old, his family loaded all of their belongings on the back of an old pickup truck and moved to California, where he spent his formidable years living on a grape farm in the small rural town of Fowler.
Brown might still be a migrant grape picker if not for his mother, who always pushed him to get a good education.
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 Peter James Lee: Cognitive Psychology & Real-world Cognition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-01)
Lee, P. J., and Brown, N. The role of guessing and boundaries in the telescoping of public events.
Lee, P. J., and Brown, N. "Royalty" as an inference based explanation for the Amercian-European bias in
Brown, N. R., Friedman A., and Lee, P. Spatial relationships and the role of visual representation in the biasing of distance estimates
www.ualberta.ca /~pjlee/pubs.html   (141 words)

  
 Lee Brown attacks plans to slash drug programs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-01)
Brown, the director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, said that in contrast with previous administrations, the Clinton emphasis in the war on drugs has been in reducing the demand for the illegal substances.
Brown said the drug problem in America is the single greatest danger facing the country today.
Brown, who headed HPD from 1982 to 1990, would not confirm rumors that he plans to one day run for the mayor of Houston.
www.chron.com /content/chronicle/aol-metropolitan/95/10/05/brown.html   (325 words)

  
 Howard University
On January 2, 1998, Lee P. Brown was inaugurated as the 50th Mayor of the City of Houston.
The son of farm workers, Lee Brown worked his way through college and earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Criminology from Fresno State University in 1961, a Master’s in Sociology from San Jose State University in 1964, and a Master’s (1968) and a Doctorate (1970) in Criminology from the University of California at Berkeley.
Prior to seeking the office of Mayor, Dr. Brown was the Radaslav A. Tsanoff Professor of Public Affairs in the Department of Sociology and a Scholar at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University.
www.howard.edu /commencement/2002/honorees/lee_p_brown.htm   (709 words)

  
 Racist Houston Mayor Lee Brown buys signs calling Sanchez "anti-Hispanic" continues Byrd lynching ad
Nowhere was it reported that while Brown was kicking and screaming over the as of yet to be appointed Sanchez poll watchers with accusations of "voter intimidation," his own campaign had appointed and stationed Brown poll watchers at early voting locations across the city.
Lee P. Brown, recall, was the New York City Police Commissioner during the Crown Heights Race Riots, a disaster that contributed to his leaving that position shortly afterwards.
Brown's on the other hand are all vicious attack ads, and his campaign strategy at this point seems to be below the belt tactics of questionable legality.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/578594/posts   (1672 words)

  
 Lee Brown to join Rice (December 8, 1995)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-01)
Former Houston Police Chief Lee P. Brown will be stepping down as the director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy in Washington and accepting a position at Rice.
Brown received a masters and a doctorate in criminology from the University of California at Berkeley, a masters in sociology from San Jose State University and a bachelors in criminology from Fresno State University.
During Brown's eight years as chief of police in Houston, he was responsible for improving the image of the department, easing racial tension and stressing the "neighborhood-oriented policing" program in which officers attempt to acquaint themselves with the people they serve.
www.rice.edu /projects/thresher/issues/83/951208/News/Story5.html   (407 words)

  
 Norman R. Brown - Publications
Brown, N. R., Buchanan, L., and Cabeza, R. Estimating the frequency of nonevents: The role of recollection failure in false recognition.
Brown, N. and Friedman, A. Assessing and improving geographical beliefs: A cognitive approach.
Brown, N. and Siegler, R. The role of availability in the estimation of national populations.
www.ualberta.ca /~nrbrown/publications.html   (2665 words)

  
 Lee P. Brown- From Law Enforcement to Mayor : Black History Daily
Lee P. Brown was born the son of farm workers.
Lee Brown continued on in education and earned a Masters and Doctorate degree in Criminology from the University of California at Berkley in 1968 and 1970 respectively.
Brown was inaugurated as the 50th mayor of Houston.
www.blackseek.com /bh/2001/80_LBrown.htm   (209 words)

  
 Drug Czar Lee Brown Resigns   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-01)
Lee P. Brown, director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, announced his resignation on December 12 (Pierre Thomas and Jim McGee, "Brown Ends Two-Year Tenure as Drug Policy Chief," Washington Post, December 13, 1995, p.
Brown said he is leaving the office to begin a teaching job at Rice University in Houston.
During Brown's tenure, Clinton raised the status of the drug czar to cabinet-level, but the department's budget and staff were dramatically cut.
www.ndsn.org /jan96/drugczar.html   (313 words)

  
 City of Houston > Information Technology Department > Technology Awards and Recognitions
Mayor Lee P. Brown has been named “2002 Public Technologist of the Year” by Public Technology, Inc. (PTI), a national non-profit technology research and development organization based in Washington, DC whose mission is to bring the benefits of technology to local governments.
In his letter to Mayor Brown, Toregas also said, “Early in your administration in Houston, you stated that your dream was to bring technology to everyone and “bridge the digital divide” for all Houstonians regardless of the socio-economic status.
Mayor Brown was also lauded for promoting the use of technology as a method to reduce cost, limit the growth of the City’s workforce, and improve the delivery and quality of services for Houston’s citizens and employees.
www.houstontx.gov /it/mayorbrown-pti.html   (383 words)

  
 Brown elected as chairman of Unity   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-01)
Dr. Brown replaces Limas Jefferson, who served as Chairman of the board since minority partners assumed control of the bank in 1989.
Brown was elected mayor of Houston in 1997, and was re-elected twice.
He left office in 2004, and is currently chairman and CEO of Brown Group International and serves as a non-executive director of CAMAC International Corporation.
www.eyeonhouston.houstonbusinessconnections.com /brownelectedasch.html   (832 words)

  
 blogHOUSTON - Former Mayor Brown launches think tank, consultancy
Take last week's column on former mayor Lee P. Brown, who is wrapping up his year as politico in residence at Rice University.
He hopes to continue his relationship with Rice after next week and has founded the Lee P. Brown Center for Public Service that he hopes will be located on the campus.
Brown Group International should indeed be able to draw on Brown's special expertise in crisis management, government relations, personnel selection, infrastructure management, transparency in government, visual pollution control, technological innovation, and pension management.
www.bloghouston.net /item/487   (453 words)

  
 Catherine Daly on Lee Ann Brown's Polyverse and Jeff Clark's The Little Door Slides Back   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-01)
Lee Ann Brown, like other east coast experimentalists, plays with the roles of inspiration and intention in language use, among other things.
Bernadette Mayer, a contemporary influence on both Clark and Brown, is well-known for her poetry experiments, her reading of French surrealists and co-option of techniques such as found poetry and catalog poems, as well as her larger scale experiments in journal writing.
Brown's and Clark's idea-based poetry makes a strong appeal to the senses: to words' sound, directly to music, to various descriptions of various sex.
home.jps.net /~nada/daly.htm   (734 words)

  
 HWA BIOGRAPHY
Brown pioneered the concept of community policing and transformed the Houston Police Department into one of the most respected police agencies in the nation.
In 1997, Brown was elected Mayor of Houston, Texas, and reelected twice.
Brown has four grown children and eleven grandchildren from his late wife Yvonne, is currently married to Frances, an educator in the Houston Independent School District, and the mother of one married daughter.
www.harrywalker.com /speakers_template.cfm?Spea_ID=704&SubcatID=202   (829 words)

  
 Making Drug Prevention a National Priority
Lee P. Brown is Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.
Brown recently met with MRC for an exclusive interview in Washington, D.C. The conversation was edited for length.
Plus the people are fed up and they want to see something change, and by combining that anger into something constructive - that is working together - not only can we, we will make a difference.
www.ncrel.org /sdrs/areas/issues/envrnmnt/drugfree/4-1lee.htm   (2063 words)

  
 World of possibilities here, even sans Olympics (Houston Mayor Lee P. Brown's own editorial)
Lee Brown and his gang of money sucking locusts have to come up with another way to get money to party on.
Like most of the other garbage Brown has been involved in, his choo-choo train to nowhere, various stadiums and whatnot, the goal has always been to fleece the taxpayer.
We are dealing with Mayorbob's cronies, Clinton's drug czar Mayor Leepy Brown, and the efforts of Ken "enron" Lay (who did a lot to get the new ballpark built even though the voter approval was by 1% margin).
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/740709/posts   (1642 words)

  
 Meryl Streep and Lee Brown to Receive NCADD Achievement Awards
Two-time Oscar-winning actress Meryl Streep and former drug czar Lee P.Brown, PhD are among those individuals whom NCADD will honor with achievement awards (see below for descriptions) this year for their outstanding work in the field of alcoholism and other drug addictions.
Brown will receive the Gold Key Award in recognition of his compassionate approach to the problem of alcoholism and other drug addictions during his tenure as President Clinton's first director of national drug control policy.
Brown was a forceful advocate in the federal government for prevention and treatment.
www.charitywire.com /charity109/01982.html   (342 words)

  
 CDE Free Blocks - Lincoln Douglas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-01)
We are unwilling to risk the possibility of improving ourselves, speaking up in society, or even testing foreign territory, because our human egos risk damage in the process of learning and improving.
For the sake of respecting the dignity of the Somalian people, the UN accomplished little, doing not much more than created a system in which the Somalians were dependent on the UN, and no problems had been solved.
Neveille Brown, a fellow of the International Institute of Strategic Studies explained in the 1981 RUSI Journal on p.
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 News @ Cisco: Mayor Lee P. Brown Announces New Phone System Will Save More Than $6 Million Annually
(Houston, Texas, February 11, 2002) - Mayor Lee P. Brown today announced that the City of Houston is transforming its data network and hundreds of standalone phone systems into a single, converged voice-data communications system based on Cisco AVVID (Architecture for Voice, Video, and Integrated Data).
The new network is expected to generate $6.2 million in annual savings with an investment payback in less than one year for the City and its taxpayers.
In keeping with Mayor Lee P. Brown's E-Government Center and vision for real time eGovernment, the City of Houston has launched a city-wide technology upgrade that offers multiple online services through the City website.
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The award recognizes Mayor Brown and his vision of technology for the masses -- realized in SimHouston, a program that reaches across the digital divide that marginalizes Houstonians with limited access to technology.
The award honors Mayor Brown for his leadership to improve the quality of life for the residents of Houston by making technology available and accessible to each and every resident -- much like a utility.
Instrumental in fulfilling Mayor Lee P. Brown's vision is software development company Simdesk Technologies, Inc. which developed SimHouston.
www.simdesk.com /page/pressrelease11.jsp   (378 words)

  
 Houston Chinatown :: Elite
MAYOR LEE P. On January 2, 1998, Lee P. Brown was inaugurated as the 50th Mayor of the City of Houston.
Mayor Brown has four grown children and nine grandchildren from his marriage to his late wife Yvonne Brown.
Among his many awards, Dr. Brown was selected Father of the Year in 1991 by the National Father's Day Committee.
www.2002china.net /chinatowns/houston/elitehomee.shtml   (761 words)

  
 Unity National Bank Names New President & Chief Executive Officer and Executive Vice President & Chief Lending ...
Chairman Lee P. Brown, former Mayor of Houston announces new Executives in place to facilitate growth and expansion of Unity National Bank.
He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Finance from Texas Tech University and is a graduate of the Southwestern Graduate School of Banking at Southern Methodist University and the National Installment Credit School at Norman Oklahoma.
Chairman Lee P. Brown, former Mayor of Houston has announced that John Scroggins has joined the Bank as Executive Vice President and Chief Lending Officer.
www.prweb.com /releases/2006/4/prweb367537.htm   (480 words)

  
 Political.com :: Political Gossip presented by George Strong & Associates   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-01)
Previous posting: Who is Lee P. Brown,Dean in trouble, Clark in town; January 21, 2004; 9:44 a.m.
The Gossips hear that no one could name Lee P. Brown during Jeopardy on TV recently.
But the $2,000 clue came up with the picture of the Honorable Lee P. Brown while Alex Trebek said something to the effect of "This man, who served as Drug Czar on President Clinton's cabinet, became mayor of Houston in 1998." Nobody buzzed in to answer.
www.political.com /gossip-arc/0613.html   (438 words)

  
 Top20Houston.com - Your Top20Guide to Houston, TX.
Its first African American mayor, Lee P. Brown, was elected in 1997.
Former mayor Lee P. Brown denounced the term limits, saying they prevented incumbents from gaining enough experience in city government.
The civic center was replaced by the George R. Brown Convention Center, one of the nation's largest; and the Jesse H. Jones Hall for the Performing Arts, home of the symphony orchestra.
top20houston.com   (6465 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Es Brown o es Sánchez.(Lee P. Brown, Orlando Sánchez, candidatos a la alcadía de Houston)(TT: Is it ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-01)
Amazon.com: Es Brown o es Sánchez.(Lee P. Brown, Orlando Sánchez, candidatos a la alcadía de Houston)(TT: Is it Brown or is it Sanchez.)(TA: Lee P. Brown, Orlando...
Es Brown o es Sánchez.(Lee P. Brown, Orlando Sánchez, candidatos a la alcadía de Houston)(TT: Is it Brown or is it Sanchez.)(TA: Lee P. Brown, Orlando...
Title: Es Brown o es Sánchez.(Lee P. Brown, Orlando Sánchez, candidatos a la alcadía de Houston)(TT: Is it Brown or is it Sanchez.)(TA: Lee P. Brown, Orlando Sanchez, candidates to mayor in Houston)
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0008IO50K?v=glance   (340 words)

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