Word: franklin
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Robert LaTremouille, a Franklin Street resident who has worked with many neighborhood groups over zoning issues, said he feels Harvard has acted illegally by not providing adequate parking for Sanders Theatre...
...Catholic establishment believed the gay right to party stopped short of crashing its party, and the courts agreed. As far as the offending curriculum was concerned, most of the parents who balked at it were surely not opposed to tolerance. "Mind your business" is a very old saw; Benjamin Franklin put it on the first American coin. Heather Has Two Mommies struck traditionalists as going beyond toleration to approbation, where they were not willing to follow. The example of failed liberal power plays supplies conservatives as far away as Oregon with ammunition and encouragement...
...succeed." But several top Clinton aides say the President should stay home and address to the country from the Oval Office. Speaking for the national interest, they argue, requires a sober venue commensurate with the stakes. Like John Kennedy, however, Clinton fears overexposure. He is well aware that Franklin Roosevelt gave only four fireside chats during his first year in office (and only four more during his first term). Clinton knows too that it was F.D.R. himself who said "the public psychology cannot . . . be attuned for long periods of time to a constant repetition of the highest note...
...closing, I would suggest that in the future Mr. Frank leave the use of chimerical coloratura to the opera divas because opera, as we all know, is a genre of the make-believe, unlike ethical journalism. Paul B. Franklin Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Issues Tutor Winthrop House
...ability to engage in inside bargaining, negotiating and arm-twisting. [Lyndon Johnson] could do this, and Clinton is a lot closer in this way to Johnson than he is to Carter. The last skill is communication. Clinton can do this very well with large and small audiences, as Franklin Roosevelt could, and Reagan and Kennedy," he says...