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...that regularly unfolded at his townhouse, saying that it was often a late-night stop for House members finished with work but not quite ready to hit the hay. Pointing to some shrubbery in the corner, Foley said, "See those bushes over there? Last week at a party, Phil Crane was on his hands and knees throwing up in those bushes." Crane was a senior, archconservative Republican congressman from Chicago who entered alcohol treatment in 2000 and lost his re-election bid in 2004. Whether this was a dramatic touch or a true story is unclear. Asked about the tale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Barbecuing, Mark Foley Style | 10/6/2006 | See Source »

...program might be shut down once and for all. In 1983, he threatened to do just that in the wake of another scandal involving a Congressman and a teenage page. At the time, the House was investigating allegations that two Congressmen had sexual relations with teenage pages. Representatives Daniel Crane, an Illinois Republican, and Gerry Studds, a Democrat from Massachusetts, were eventually censured for having had sex with a female page and male page, respectively...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time to Close the Book on Washington Pages? | 10/5/2006 | See Source »

...It’s really bad—there are jackhammers at 7 a.m.,” said Marco P. Basile ’08, a Lowell resident living in Claverly this year. “Right now there’s a wonderful crane right outside my window that I wake up to,” he added...

Author: By Elaine Chen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cacophony Irks Clav Residents | 9/18/2006 | See Source »

After the industrialist Charles R. Crane purchased the bells from the Soviet Union, he presented them as a gift to University President A. Lawrence Lowell in 1930. Lowell House, then under construction, had its tower redesigned to fit the bells...

Author: By Anton S. Troianovski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lowell Bells May Return to Motherland | 9/11/2006 | See Source »

...After the industrialist Charles R. Crane purchased the bells from the Soviet Union, he presented them as a gift to University President A. Lawrence Lowell in 1930. Lowell House, then under construction, had its tower redesigned to fit the bells...

Author: By Anton S. Troianovski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lowell's Russian Bells Set to Head Home | 9/7/2006 | See Source »

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