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...study was conducted by Pinka Chatterji, an instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and a health economist at the Center for Multicultural Mental Health Research, and Jeffrey S. DeSimone, an assistant professor of economics at the University of South Florida...
...Much Will it Hurt the GOP? The congressman's resignation doesn't just open up a seat for the Democrats in Florida. It could do major damage to the party's reelection hopes nationwide
House Speaker Dennis Hastert rose to power because of a sex scandal, and now another one eight years later is threatening to take him down. The controversy around former Florida Rep. Mark Foley, who resigned last Friday after e-mails and instant messages that showed him making inappropriate and at times lurid comments to Capitol Hill pages, has now shifted to the questions that have defined every Washington scandal since Watergate: which higher-ups knew, when they knew it, and whether there was a cover-up. Hastert, as the leader of the Republicans in the House, is getting the closest...
...Behind Foley's Swift Fall From Grace Thanks to his previous work against pedophiles, the Florida congressman who sent possibly inappropriate e-mails to a teenager had little choice but to resign. Now the G.O.P. has yet another vulnerable seat to defend
...called for the resignation of any member of the House leadership "if they knew or should have known" about the e-mails, and while other Republicans may not go that far, they'll call for investigations. Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert has already asked both the state of Florida and the Justice Department to look into Foley's conduct. Meanwhile, House leaders are trying to get their story straight about the exact timeline of who was informed of Foley's e-mails and when. The goal is to move the issue away from how the leaders reacted and back...