Word: hydes
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...typical President could look forward to was a shack with a plaque. When he left office, he held on to his papers. But F.D.R., who invented the modern presidency, also invented the modern presidential library. In 1939 he bequeathed his papers to the government and donated part of his Hyde Park, N.Y., estate for a library. In 1955, Congress passed the Presidential Libraries Act, which created a public-private partnership: an ex-President would raise money to build his library, but Washington would pick up most of the tab for maintaining the documents housed there. (This year the Federal Government...
Then, a trip from Hyde Park to Ybor City can yield even more diversions. Whether it's smoking Cubans at "Ybor City Cigars" or hitting up the dance clubs, Ybor can certainly keep a player from his 12:30 a.m. curfew. With the preponderance of teenage clubs in Ybor, it's also a good thing Mark Chmura and the Packers aren't playing in this Super Bowl...
...however, the new GOP majority implemented a six-year term limit for committee chairmen. And what seemed like a good idea six long years ago is raising ire among some senior party members. Henry Hyde, Republican of Illinois, only grudgingly departed as chairman of the House Ways and Means committee and moved to the head of the foreign relations panel. Hyde argued unsuccessfully that he should remain in his leadership position to make up for time he missed during President Clinton's impeachment trial...
None of this can dull a fine performance by James Barbour, a magnetic and strong-voiced Rochester. With his flowing hair and smoldering passion, he can at least be thankful this show grabbed him before Jekyll & Hyde. But Marla Schaffel, as Jane, fares less well. Despite a lovely voice, she seems altogether too poised and polished (not to mention too pretty) from the outset. Her desire for Rochester remains something we must take on faith, and her character, for all the gothic doings around her, seems to change little from beginning to end. And that, gentle reader, is something Jane...
...Harvard Republican Club meeting last spring where U.S. Rep. Henry Hyde (R-Ill.) spoke, Barkley pitched the idea of a club-wide push to put a conservative at the head of the council...