Word: neill
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...years Eileen Herlie played boutique owner Myrtle Fargate on ABC's All My Children. Herlie joined the soap opera in 1976 after a successful run on Broadway, where she appeared in shows like Take Me Along--based on Eugene O'Neill's play Ah, Wilderness!--and the Richard Burton production of Hamlet. For her turn as Lily, an old-maid schoolteacher in Take Me Along, Herlie received a Tony nomination...
...Picking Up the Phone The first two Treasury chiefs of the Bush years never pulled off much at all. Paul O'Neill, the former CEO of aluminum maker Alcoa, battled with the White House over deficit spending (he wanted less of it) and lost. His successor, John Snow, former CEO of railroad giant CSX, toed the Administration's low-tax, anti-regulation line so faithfully as to be almost invisible...
...trip was a reminder, too, that Tip O'Neill's adage about politics being local applies overseas as well. Two of the countries on his itinerary - Israel and Britain - are likely to see changes in government in the near future, so Obama made a point of meeting with leaders across the political spectrum. You could also see their domestic political concerns at work in how those foreign leaders approached Obama. Sarkozy, for example, has been under sharp criticism at home for his pro-American posture; it certainly didn't hurt him to be seen swooning over the only American politician...
There is, of course, an argument for experience, especially when the issues are complex and the special interests cunning. House Speaker Tip O'Neill used to grumble about the "bed wetters," the fresh-faced Democrats who hadn't been around long enough to know how to resist pressure from the Reagan White House. There's a reason roughly half the people who write the laws have law degrees. But surely there's value in having some teachers as legislators when No Child Left Behind is on the table, or some doctors and nurses on the committees dissecting health-care proposals...
...historian, Tyler G. Neill ’07-’08, was quick to note that the Co-op is not the hotbed of communism or granola-crunching hippies that it once...