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...SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON FRANK CAPRA...
This bluff and vigorous Ford film, based on the Edwin O'Connor roman ŕ clef about four-time Boston Mayor James Curley, winks at the chicanery involved in getting into office and staying there. Spencer Tracy, right, is Frank Skeffington, on his final run for a job he believes is his by divine right. Doing favors, making deals, smiting enemiesto Frank, that's just politics. Has anything changed in 50 years? The big-city machine the film elegizes may be gone, but the malady lingers...
...equal rights for same-sex couples. In a voice that sounds like Clint Eastwood, a narrator claims a vote for Ellsworth will mean a vote for Nancy Pelosi and a gay agenda. "Pelosi will then put in motion her radical plan to advance the homosexual agenda, led by Barney Frank, reprimanded by the House after paying for sex with a man who ran a gay brothel out of Congressman Frank's home," the narrator says...
Editor’s note: Last spring, Frank Herrmann, a pitching prospect in the Cleveland Indians organization and former Harvard right-handed starter, wrote a weekly column for The Crimson. This is his 2006 fall debut.An old adage says, “It ain’t cheating if you don’t get caught.” Well, Detroit Tigers pitcher Kenny Rogers got caught and it was on baseball’s biggest stage. The latest scandal surrounding America’s pasttime emerged during the second game of the World Series on Sunday night when Rogers...
Throughout his brief political career, Obama has presented himself as someone who, as Frank Rich wrote in The New York Times, “can be all things to all people.” He is proud of his background but, like Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, has not made an issue out of his racial identity. If citizens aren’t making an issue out of it, does that mean that we are finally realizing Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s dream that all people, including political candidates, will “not be judged...