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...congressional seats of Foley, Speaker Hastert, Rep. John Shimkus and Rep. Thomas Reynolds were all in the safe column. Now Foley has resigned; Hastert looks to be next; and it is inevitable that Shimkus and Reynolds will have to spend more time talking about how they handled the Foley affair than either imagined a week ago. Every Republican running for office who took Foley's PAC money - and even some who did not - will have some explaining to do. Seven days ago, it took some clever accounting to see how the Democrats could pick up 15 seats...
...thirds of Americans aware of the lurid e-mails set to congressional pages by a G.O.P congressman believe Republican leaders tried to cover up the scandal - and one quarter of them say the affair makes them less likely to vote for Republican candidates in their districts come November. Those are among the findings of a new TIME poll conducted this week among 1,002 randomly-selected voting-age Americans...
...former House Majority Leader Tom Delay for too long , leaving the party mired in a distracting fundraising scandal. And many Republicans thought his coming to the side of Democrat William Jefferson, whose office was raided by federal investigators pursuing a bribery case, was a colossal blunder. The Foley affair will be a test of how much faith Republicans have in their leader - and whether he can get the story off the front pages...
...Department Chair Evelyn B. Higginbotham said that the weekend served “as a collective for discussing the issues that are current in our world today for African American people and people of African descent.” At a bustling black-tie affair in the Cambridge Marriott, keynote speaker Stephanie K. Bell-Rose ’79 suggested a model of sustained alumni engagementent to Harvard and its black community. Bell-Rose, the founding president of The Goldman Sachs Foundation and a managing director of Goldman Sachs, suggested a three-step “collective strategic philanthropic approach?...
These days, the end of the world isn't a terribly classy affair, but it wasn't always all zombies and asteroids and Mel Gibson. It has a long and distinguished literary history. As early as 1826, Mary Shelley--who also wrote Frankenstein--published a novel called The Last Man, in which a plague whittles humanity down to a single final specimen. In Samuel Beckett's play Endgame, crippled wretches crouch in a miserable bunker after some ambiguous, eschatological catastrophe, swapping gallows one-liners as their supplies dwindle...