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...last fall about the "overfriendly" approaches of a not-so-secretly-gay Congressman to a 16-year-old former page--both majority leader John Boehner and campaign chairman Tom Reynolds say they brought it up with Hastert last spring--they insist they never imagined anything like the more graphic instant messages that subsequently came to light. Boehner spokesman Kevin Madden said his boss was told only that there had been "contact" between Foley and a page, and that his knowledge of even that much came from a fleeting conversation on the House floor. But shouldn't someone have got chills...
Even after a batch of truly sleazy instant messages was discovered by ABC News, Reynolds' chief of staff Kirk Fordham, who was also a former aide to Foley, tried to solve the political problem by attempting to talk the network out of publishing the worst of the messages. Fordham resigned last week, but he didn't go quietly, the way House leaders had hoped. On his way out, he threw fuel on the political fire by announcing that he had warned Hastert's staff of Foley's "inappropriate behavior" at least three years ago--a charge that Hastert's chief...
...disclosure about Foley's sexually explicit instant messages to teenage congressional pages and the handling of this situation by the House Republican leadership make you less likely to vote for the Republican candidate in your district, more likely, or did it really have no effect on how you will vote...
...graduate of Harvard may additionally have an easier time connecting with donors and alums in the critical venture of fundraising. “When I was a student here” anecdotes and shared experiences provide an instant connection that an outsider would struggle to forge...
...arXiv has completely replaced journals as the mode of communication amongst researchers. Far from being inundated by “junk science,” the arXiv has in fact managed to maintain a consistent level of quality and has greatly facilitated the growth of the field by allowing instant exchange of information across continents and easy access to research papers. Hundreds of discoveries are reported first on the arXiv, and only much later (and sometimes never) are they sent to peer-reviewed journals...