Word: franks
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What could possibly induce die-hard conservatives Bob Barr and Henry Hyde and confirmed liberals John Conyers and Barney Frank to pose together ?- holding hands in "go team!" style, no less ?- just four months after impeachment ended? Turns out it?s something like principles. The four former foes led the House of Representatives in a resounding rollback of the government?s right to confiscate the property based on pure suspicion ?- like nabbing someone carrying a lot of cash because he might be dealing drugs. "During impeachment, Judiciary Committee members would always say that their reputation for contentiousness was overblown, that...
...added juxtaposition this year: at Pine Street the keynote speaker was former Labor Secretary Robert Reich; Harvard welcomed Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan to speak to alums and graduates. The two men have very different views of the economy. In his memoir, Reich imagined that a frank exchange would involve his assailing Greenspan as a "robber-baron pimp" and the central banker's calling him a "Bolshevik dwarf...
...Less Successful Author: Barney Frank (D- Mass.) got $8.68 for an article...
Statements like these betray conventional perceptions of Anne Frank. The popular image that she was an optimistic light in a time of darkness is overturned and made more complex by the fact that she often wavered between moods. Upon every reading, something different, and even contradictory to previous reactions, stands out. I remember when I first read the book at age 12, what seemed most important to me was the relationship that Anne shared with her father. At 15, it was her friendship with Peter and her burgeoning sexuality. At 16, when I portrayed Anne on Broadway...
Natalie Portman portrayed Anne Frank in the 1997-98 production of the Broadway play. She currently appears in The Phantom Menace