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...people of Boston. It is rooted in an age old tension between what Boston College professor Thomas O'Conner has called the aristocratic, Protestant, Harvard educated Brahmin class, and the Irish, Italian, Catholic immigrant class. The late Thomas "Tip" O'Neil, a classic Irish politician, former Speaker of the House and Cambridge resident, was found of exploiting the gulf between the Cambridge working class and the Cambridge academic class. He often boasted that the only relationship he ever had with Harvard was a summer job mowing lawns...
Carolyn M. Fast '98, an E4A board member who organized Stout's speech, said Stout was chosen as the keynote speaker in part because she developed many of the inclusive social action programs which E4A has incorporated...
...clean water and unsullied wilderness areas. But because they misread popular sentiment on the environment, the G.O.P. took a beating in the polls on this issue. Now as many as 91 House Republicans are voting with the Democrats on environmental measures. Shortly after the House reconvenes this week, Speaker Newt Gingrich is expected to announce the formation of a task force to review the Republican approach to the environment; he says the party "mishandled" the matter last year...
...such a case, explained Edwards, Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) and several powerful GOP governors would begin working out deals to choose a candidate who could beat President Clinton in November...
Microsoft chief executive officer Bill Gates, one of Harvard's most famous dropouts, will return to school as the keynote speaker at a ground-breaking "Conference on the Internet and Society" on May 28 through...