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While the whip's basic job is to count votes, getting a sense of where lawmakers stand on an issue, Gingrich is more likely to use the post as a bully pulpit for his legendary Democrat bashing. In 1984 Gingrich enraged then Speaker Tip O'Neill by vehemently accusing Democratic lawmakers of blindness to the Communist threat. It was Gingrich who fomented the House Ethics Committee's investigation of O'Neill's successor, Jim Wright of Texas. In a characteristically antagonistic oratorical flourish, Gingrich accused Wright, as well as other Democratic leaders, of having a "Mussolini-like...
...other business, the council asked the cityclerk to prepare a resolution extending thecouncil's best wishes to outgoing AssociateVice-President for State and Community AffairsJacqueline D. O'Neill...
However, during O'Neill's 12-year tenure, city officials have often charged that Harvard is not doing enough to support the community. City residents have complained that the University has made complex real estate decisions without adequately consulting them. As the principle liason between Harvard and the city, O'Neill has had to bear the brunt of that criticism...
Despite these complaints, city officials and community activists alike last week said they would be sorry to see her leave. Although the principle tensions between the University and the city have not changed in recent years, many said that O'Neill had done much to promote discussion between the two groups...
...picking a successor to O'Neill, Harvard needs to think about how it can provide the most support to the community. It is crucial to have an administrator who, like O'Neill, is outside the real estate business, who has close ties to the city and who is willing to listen. If the University fails to pick such a successor, choosing to think of itself as an entity separate and distinct from Cambridge, Harvard may do the city irreparable harm. And by hurting the surrounding community, the University will hurt itself...