Word: speaker
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Pleading that he is pressed for time,House Speaker Newt Gingrichsaid he will step down as chairman of GOPAC, the cash-stuffed political action committee he used to help engineer theRepublican landslide last November. Since the GOP victory, the PAC has come under scrutiny for not disclosing information about donors and has beenthe subject of an ethics complaint. Gingrich's resignation is his latest move to trim his calendar and lower his profile. Earlier this week, he discontinued the Speaker's traditional daily press briefing. He has also stopped teaching a controversial weekend college course...
...contrast to recent years, the senior class' speaker preferences were distinctly unpolitical, said First Radcliffe Marshal Elena T. Huang...
...last few years, [the choices] have been very political," Huang said. She cited last year's pairing of Class Day speaker Lani Guinier and Commencement speaker Al Gore '69 and the previous year's duo of Class Day speaker Marian Wright Edelman and Commencement speaker Colin S. Powell...
Aaron's selection process began in the houses. Students in all 13 of Harvard's houses (including Dudley House) listed speaker suggestions...
McGuire said that he, too, was honored to be chosen as a student commencement speaker...