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...need Pelosi send a letter to her colleagues endorsing Murtha in this week's Democratic leadership elections? In one word, loyalty. The San Francisco congresswoman, first elected back in 1987, wasn't expected to become Speaker of the House, and one of the key factors in her rise in Washington has been Murtha, who has been a mentor and ally. Murtha was actually Pelosi's campaign manager in her 2001 race against Hoyer, helping convince more senior lawmakers that Pelosi was ready to be one of the party's top leaders...
...President of the United States, Nancy Pelosi would support him," one Pelosi ally told TIME. And Pelosi credits Murtha's call for troop withdrawal as a bold move that helped Democrats win last week's elections. Still, it's not entirely clear how strongly Pelosi will back Murtha; her letter doesn't actually ask others to join his camp, but simply points out that it is in response to Murtha's request for an endorsement...
...House J. Dennis Hastert, in National Review Online last week, asked, “Do we really want Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco values leading the culture war?” Hastert’s predecessor, Newt Gingrich, echoed him, asking in a Republican National Committee letter, “Will everything you’ve worked so hard to accomplish be lost to the San Francisco values of would-be Speaker Nancy Pelosi...
...spirit of Nathaniel Hawthorne looms large over Harvard. Several classes are more or less centered around him, and few English concentrators are likely to graduate without reading “The House of the Seven Gables,” or, morelikely, “The Scarlet Letter.”It is perhaps not surprising, then, that Black Community and Student Theatre (BlackC.A.S.T) chose to produce “In the Blood,” one of Suzan-Lori Parks’ adaptations of the latter this coming weekend, Nov. 9 through Nov. 11 at the Agassiz Theatre.Though this...
Both the president and the student, Saad Saadi, have apologized. But Gutmann, the daughter of a Jewish metallurgist who fled Nazi Germany in 1934, is drawing fire from pro-Israel leaders. The Zionist Organization of America wrote in a letter to the president: “Would you have done the same if he had come dressed as the Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan...