Word: flanagan
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...feel like I have to have something really intelligent to say [to go to office hours]," says Elizabeth A. Flanagan...
Echoing a familiar complaint on campus, Flanagan says she felt uncomfortable going to a professor's office hours without a specific, course-related question...
...Sheridan's script, documents the 1981 hunger strike led by IRA soldier Bobby Sands (John Lynch) and the attempt by mothers of Sands' jailed cohorts to keep their boys from dying. Despite her natural caution, Kathleen Quigley (Helen Mirren), an apolitical teacher, is persuaded, by an IRA sympathizer (Fionnula Flanagan) and by loyalty to her own son, to try bringing the two warring sides together...
Results were mixed among the Republican freshmen who upset longtime Democratic powers in 1994. Michael Flanagan two years ago stunned everyone by dethroning Dan Rostenkowski, overlord of the House Ways and Means Committee. On Tuesday, though, Flanagan fell to Rod Blagojevich and a Chicago Democratic machine no longer burdened with defending a Representative under a 17-count federal corruption indictment, as Rostenkowski had been. On the other hand, the biggest giant killer of them all, George Nethercutt, held on to the Washington State seat he had snatched from Tom Foley, House Speaker until...
Democrats are hoping Flanagan's election two years ago--filling the seat of indicted Democrat Daniel Rostenkowski--was a fluke caused by Rostenkowski's legal shenanigans. But Flanagan, the first Republican representative from Chicago in more than 30 years, has acquitted himself well in Washington, earning positions on three major committees. This may make a difference to constituents used to having influence on Capitol Hill...