Word: speaker
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...Hyde and Speaker Gingrich have it within their power to call a truce, but that's not in their interest. The problem here is that everything is already going their way: Republicans now talk of winning 15 to 20 new seats in November, a prospect that has the faithful and the financiers wanting to barbecue Clinton for at least a few more weeks. The party's social-conservative flank, meanwhile, is opposed to mercy on ideological grounds, determined that the President must be spanked and spanked hard. But if the G.O.P. drags Clinton's carcass around the arena too many...
...students is the chance to meet famous people--or, perhaps more accurately, to catch a glimpse of the upper left side of a famous person's face. Since I began my college career, our campus has been blessed--or cursed, depending on one's political position and the speaker in question--with the presence of everyone from Hillary Clinton to Boutros Boutros-Ghali to a whole slew of figures whose names on those red and beige Institute of Politics posters need to be preceded by phrases like "His Majesty" or "Her Royal Highness." (The Dalai Lama was actually billed...
Indoors and outdoors, winter and summer, rain and sun, silence and music, protesters hounding the speaker and fans fighting to get in, the cold shoulder received by one guest and the honorary degree received by the other--these elements of the two leaders' visits made me see the two men as something much larger than either of them actually were. Instead of two political figures, one a freedom fighter and the other fighting freedom, Nelson Mandela and Jiang Zemin became the avatars of Good and Evil. To the aspiring future leaders in the audience, it was as if some higher...
Policies and power aside, the unerringly controversial and unconsidered commentary of our Democratic state Speaker reminds me a little too much of the antics of the Republican Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. Both men are more enamored of neat rhetoric than they are of reasoned statements or even sensible ones. Who could forget Gingrich's famous speech at the 1996 Republican convention on beach volleyball: "A mere 40 years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. Now it is not only a sport in the Olympics. There are over 30 countries that have a competition internationally....And there...
...that reason, both in Washington and on Beacon Hill, the House Speakers have a responsibility to constituents to be voices of reason and thoughtfulness. I wish Mr. Finneran would stop taking his cues from Mr. Gingrich and put more care into his comments. The state would certainly benefit from a Speaker who didn't talk so much...