Word: speaker
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Today's festivities include a reception, a speaker from the Spanish Literature Department, the dance troupe Ballete Folklorico Atzlan, a traditional Mexican dinner, a Mariachi band, the keynote speaker on the future of Mexican-Americans in the U.S, and a dance. All activities are open to the public except for the dinner, Alexander said...
...left devalues the Holocaust as well. At the summit for progressive Jews, the New York Tikkun conference, one speaker said that Jews should sympathize with Palestinians who are experiencing another Holocaust...
Other potential successors to Takeshita include former Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda, 84; ex-Deputy Prime Minister Shin Kanemaru, 74; Masaharu Gotoda, 74, who served as key aide to former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone; and Michita Sakata, 72, speaker of the House of Representatives...
Wright's dramatic statement came as the House Ethics Committee was preparing to vote on whether there is "reason to believe" the Speaker has violated congressional rules. After the vote, the committee will publish a report of some 500 pages detailing the alleged violations. The committee will release raw data compiled by counsel Richard Phelan -- the kind of unsubstantiated innuendos that Republicans succeeded in keeping out of the public domain / during the Tower investigation. Wright will have 21 days in which to respond in writing. The committee will then decide if the case requires any action. If it recommends...
...with our pants drawn up to the armpits saying, 'We have to wait for the report, we have to wait for the report.' Meanwhile the leaks were hurting. We needed something to rally around." History is on Wright's side: Congressmen have been reprimanded and censured before and several Speakers mildly investigated, but no Speaker has ever been ousted...