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...improbable rake, acknowledged the child, for whom he had provided support payments to Maria Halpin all along. "Above all," Cleveland instructed his people, "tell the truth." An admirable thought. The New York Sun's Charles A. Dana wrote: "We do not believe that the American people will knowingly elect to the Presidency a coarse debauchee who would bring his harlots with him to Washington, and hire lodgings for them convenient to the White House." By October the Nation judged: "Party contests have never before reached so low a depth of degradation as this." The Democrats, desperate for a sexual rebuttal...
...council--which operates under a proportional representation system in which a majority of councillors must agree on a mayor--failed to elect a successor to Duehay in its first month of meetings...
...Crimson also caught a glimpse of its future in the first goal of that game when freshman winger Brett Nowak scored his third goal of the season on assists from the brothers Moore--captain-elect Steve, the Crimson's leading scorer, and freshman sensation Dominic, who led the team with 12 goals...
...Brien received some of his biggest applause when he mocked Scott A. Abell '72, the president-elect of the Harvard Alumni Association, who subtly encouraged the graduates to donate in an earlier speech...
...November 1996 6 - Voters elect the Man from Hope, William Jefferson Clinton, to another term as president of the United States, making him the first Democrat since Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 to be re-elected. Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) earns a third term by defeating his popular Republican opponent, Governor William F. Weld...