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Dunster affiliates and roommates Jose R. Zayes '96 and Jacob B. Silber '96 said they were less disturbed by the smell than by the spots of paint on their bathroom floor...

Author: By Sarah E. Scrogin, | Title: DeWolfers Feel Effects of Rushed Paint Job | 9/12/1994 | See Source »

...highly mobilized and tend to have more discretionary income, gays have an impact on elections that is disproportionate to their number. They raised a whopping $3.5 million for Clinton. In Massachusetts, the campaign staff of Republican Governor William Weld credited gays, who mobilized against his Democratic opponent John Silber, with helping him get elected in 1990. This power has even greater effect on the congressional level. "No member of Congress -- zero -- votes based on some abstract poll number," says Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts, who is gay. "You base your vote on the reaction you get in your own district...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Shrinking Ten Percent | 4/26/1993 | See Source »

Those who remember Boston University President John Silber's gubernatorial run in 1990 will recall that he too mentioned the necessary consideration of limiting Medicare funds at a given point. His metaphor of apples being ripe for picking did not go over well when Bill Weld, his opponent, responded with TV ads showing sprightly old people dancing and playing bingo and then being told that, at the state's request, they should drop dead ASAP to ease the fiscal crisis. Even though the idea had distant poetic ancestry in Wilfred Owen's Dulce et Decorum est pro patria mori, Silber...

Author: By Dan E. Markel, | Title: The Soft Scourge of Sacrifice | 3/5/1993 | See Source »

Those mentioned as possible Democratic candidates include Boston University president John R. Silber, Boston Mayor Raymond L. Flynn, state Attorney General Scott Harshbarger and former state Senator Patricia McGovern...

Author: By Wendy M. Seltzer, | Title: Kennedy Won't Run | 2/22/1993 | See Source »

Election of Governors: They've got school President Dr. John Silber. We've got Bill Weld. Both ran for governor in '90. Last time I checked, our governor was named Weld. Besides, Billy's family has a couple of buildings named for them. Political success goes to Harvard...

Author: By John C. Ausiello, | Title: They've Got, We've Got | 2/8/1993 | See Source »

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