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...promising a retiring congressman to endorse his son for election to his seat if he voted for President Bushs Medicare plan. That same sanction also admonished him for improperly attempting to use the Federal Aviation Administrations resources to locate Texas lawmakers who had holed up in Oklahoma to protest DeLays aggressive redistricting plan. DeLay also allegedly accepted trips to Britain, Moscow, the Pacific Mariana islands, and South Korea that were paid for by private interestsand, in the latter case, by a foreign interest. DeLay is certainly one of the most powerful politicians in Washington, but he seems increasingly...
...military is violating Harvard’s discrimination policy by not allowing gay people in the military. So technically they shouldn’t be allowed on campus,” said Samantha M. Tejada ’09, who watched the HIPJ protest in front of University Hall...
...presence of military recruiters sparked anti-war sentiments as well. Johnhenry R. “Hank” Gonzalez ’06, a HIPJ member, said he hoped their protest would have a more profound effect than simply getting the military recruiters out of Harvard...
...reactions to the military recruiters’ presence were adverse. The Harvard Republican Club (HRC) staged a counter-protest in response to HIPJ, meeting at University Hall South...
Associate Dean of the College Judith H. Kidd had warned HIPJ on Thursday that the rally would be an “unauthorized event,” since the group did not have a protest permit, and that Harvard University Police Department officers would be on the scene. But despite the commotion stirred up by the HIPJ and HRC activists as they walked from the Yard to the Gordon Track and Tennis Center, gathering people and chanting as they went, the protesters did not disrupt the usual flow of the Career Forum...