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Other questions linger. While Moseley-Braun's campaign is more than $400,000 in debt and most staff members went unpaid for weeks, Matthews received a $15,000-a-month salary through Nov. 15. Moseley-Braun tried to put some of her former campaign staff members on the government payroll by giving them jobs at the Cook County recorder's office; after her successor complained, she admitted she had made a mistake...
Rondeau said that, up through 1956, University policy officially deemed workers as "servants," an idea that she said continues to linger...
That doesn't mean students should feel license to linger forever. But turnover at the Greenhouse should be a question of courtesy, not coercion...
...ideas worked in the tale of a foppish, philandering publisher: narrating his decline in flashback, from the vantage of a man afflicted and now somewhat healed, which earned instant sympathy; and letting his worldly fall lead to a moral rise. Both have been muted, and only stray witticisms linger...
...John Adams, the first occupant, had a brief, cold and unhappy time in the new White House, and his dyspeptic ghost seemed to linger there for years. Thomas Jefferson groused about "a splendid misery." Mary Todd Lincoln understandably called the place "that whited sepulchre." Calvin Coolidge once said, "Nobody lives there. They just come and go." And Harry Truman called it "the great white jail" but loved the place for its grace and meaning...