Word: postings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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House Majority Leader Tom Foley of Washington appeared to be the odds-on favorite to replace him in the top post in the House...
Wright, first elected to Congress 34 years ago, remained in his Capitol office during the day. From there, he issued a statement proclaiming there would be "no deal" in which he would quit his post in exchange for dismissal of some of the ethics committee charges...
...never made the Harvard connection. A sampling of a dozen current students turned up the following information about what grandparents were at the age they could have been attending Harvard: a Jewish store clerk, an Irish bar bouncer, a Texas construction worker, a New York Italian cop, a Black post office worker, a Connecticut farmer, a Texas reverend, a Jewish actuary, an Italian cleaner, a Black teacher, a Puerto Rico businessman and pool hall owner, a senator in Taiwan and a Naval doctor in China. The majority did not attend college...
...joke was on the 15,000 screaming Minnesotans and their beloved Golden Gophers. Peter Ciavaglia mugged Krayer by the far boards. Coach Bill Cleary leaped on to the ice looking for the first player in a Harvard jersey. ESPN's cameras caught him first, conducted its post-game interview and then let Cleary dance all over...
Last week John Mack, 35, gave in and quit as the top legislative aide to House Speaker Jim Wright. The furor had stemmed from the Washington Post's curiously timed recounting of Mack's savage knife and hammer assault on college student Pamela Small more than 15 years ago. After serving only 27 months in a county jail for the felony, he had been hired as a $9,000-a-year clerk by Wright, whose daughter was married to Mack's brother...