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But the revelations about his connections with Gobie have prompted some to call for his resignation, including the Boston Sunday Globe, which said he should step down for "his own good, and for the good of his consitutents, his causes and Congress."
Frank's dealings with Gobie are being investigated by the House ethics panel. The representative has said that after ending his sexual relationship with Gobie, he hired him in 1985 as a personal aide--using his own money, not congressional staff funds--in an attempts to help Gobie start a...
A little ironic, isn't it, that popular culture has so suddenly elevated the former Secretary of Education who advocated the tried and true classics? The same one who once berated Harvard for letting trendy Core courses displace Aristotle, has suddenly become a trend of his own.
But no one would claim that Harvard students idolize all assigned reading indiscriminately. We have a tendency to treat Poe more seriously than Stephen King, even if we like King better. A strangely convoluted snob appeal here permits us to submerge our own tastes, at least in class, so that...
Washington correspondent Dick Thompson pursued that question by joining a congressional fact-finding mission to the Amazon. The local contingent of our jungle team, Rio de Janeiro bureau chief Laura Lopez and reporter John Maier, made its own treks through the region. Maier was struck by how virtually everyone in...