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Congressman Barney Frank, ranking Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee (which oversees government housing agencies), is not kind about the Bush Administration's intentions. "They are just lying when they say they have a housing program," he says. And of the additional $35 million pledged to end chronic homelessness, Frank says, "it's not only peanuts; it's taking the peanuts from one dish and putting them in another." In fact, in October the House Appropriations Committee approved a bill that, if it becomes law, will cut $938 million from the President's budget for rental vouchers...
More than 4 million Miss Spider books are in print, making the series as big a seller as Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes. How did she snare so many buyers? The stories are gentle and told in rhyme ("'If I had friends like these,' she sighed,/ 'Who'd stay a while with me,/I'd sit them down on silken chairs/And serve them cakes and tea'"), but the illustrations are what seals the deal. Kirk, who majored in art at the Cleveland Institute of Art, paints Miss Spider's rotund little body and curlicue hair in bold, almost hallucinatory...
...constantly asking me and [Harvard Men’s Basketball Coach Frank Sullivan] about the quality of life of the people in the basketball program...He did little things, like dropping off cookies and candies,” she added...
...that Harvard men’s basketball coach Frank Sullivan wanted this summer when he made Division III Roanoke a last-minute addition to his team’s schedule was an extra nonconference game before the exam period...
Harvard coach Frank Sullivan applauded his big men for stepping up in the game and for keeping the Crimson on a winning track...