Word: congressman
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...Smithsonian's exhibit on the history of sweatshops, spoke about the importance of student activism in pushing for the protection of human rights through the power of the university. Mr. Liebhold specifically referred to student-activists at Harvard who pressured Harvard to divest from South Africa. In addition, Congressman George Miller (D-Calif.) praised students for their passion and expertise on the issue of sweatshops, while warning universities to heed students...
Already the 74-year-old widower has aced one test that no one expected him to face: the online magazine Salon reported three weeks ago that Hyde had an extramarital affair 30 years ago. That revelation "hurt him tremendously," says Congressman David Dreier of California, Hyde's friend and sometime movie companion. What Hyde felt was not so much personal embarrassment, say friends, as insult to his four children and his wife of 45 years, whom he still mourns since her death six years ago. Yet Hyde admitted the affair with a speed and self-effacement that set the standard...
...sometimes been flexible as well. In 1981 California Congressman Don Edwards went with Hyde on a tour of polling places in Texas and Alabama that eased Hyde's knee-jerk opposition to preserving the Voting Rights Act. After listening to men and women describe having had to walk 50 miles to vote only to have the doors shut on them by local sheriffs, Hyde changed his position. "We were coming back home on the plane," remembers Edwards. "And he said, 'We've got to change this.' He started out very conservative and then had a total awakening." Hyde has also...
...weeks ago, she served coffee and danish and reassurance to about two dozen adoring women lawmakers at the White House. She also lobbied Capitol Hill by phone to shore up Democratic support for the President, helping quiet the grousing of at least one of his more outspoken critics, Virginia Congressman James Moran. There is talk that she may even address the House Democratic Caucus...
WASHINGTON: Never mind Salon. Now that Hustler magazine has waded into the scandal arena, will any congressman's "youthful indiscretions" be sacred? A cool million bucks was what publisher and habitual agent provocateur Larry Flynt offered anyone with "documentary evidence" of "an adulterous sexual encounter with a current member of the United States Congress or a high-ranking government official." By taking out a full-page ad in the Washington Post Sunday, Flynt showed he's as serious as he ever gets; after all, every decent D.C. correspondent knows where the bodies are -- or were -- buried...