Word: speaker
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According to Edie Holway, fellows and programs administrator for the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, the center selected the "provocative" speaker for the speech series based on suggestions from people at the center and at the Kennedy School...
Even with the White House signed on, Kerrey-Portman could run into trouble again in the Senate. House Speaker Newt Gingrich is already unhappy that Archer compromised enough to bring Clinton in on the deal. In the Senate, where the bill will be taken up early next year, Finance Committee chairman William Roth might not be in any hurry to make the deal final if that drags the issue deeper into the '98 campaign season. And all this is just a skirmish in a larger battle plan by some conservatives to sweep away the graduated income tax altogether. Even...
...colloborator of Handel's, James Harris. L'Allegro is, as the title suggests, full of bright, youthful phrasing and imagery. Hymen is invoked and the praise of "bustling cities" sung. Il Penseroso, on the other hand, is filled with the language of age, of cloisters, weariness and Heaven. The speaker plans to enter "a peaceful hermitage" where he hopes to sit and reflect at the end of life. The third part is based on Jennens' contribution, Il Moderato, a moralizing tirade praising "Moderation, grace divine," to the detriment of "headlong Passion"--whom we assume can be only the joyful, spirited...
Jiang met House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott and other Congressional leaders over breakfast in Washington...
...featured speaker was the editor of the National Enquirer, Steve Coz '79 (that's right, a Harvard alum). His compatriots were a celebrity lawyer, Marty Singer, who represents the likes of Demi and Arnold, and a paparazzo, Russell Turiak, who was there to plead innocent to the death of Diana. And their collective function was to argue about Russell's rights of access, Steve's salubriousness in print and Marty's malignancy in the courts--essentially, questioning the worthiness of celebrity journalism in America...