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...invited to speak at a dinner hosted on Wednesday by the University of California board of regents, prompting a group of female University of California at Davis professors to draft an online petition, eventually signed by more than 350 people, protesting the choice. “Inviting a keynote speaker who has come to symbolize gender and racial prejudice in academia conveys the wrong message to the University community and to the people of California,” the women wrote in the petition. In a statement, Summers called the University of California system a “national treasure...
...look at what the Administration may or may not have done that rises to level of high crimes and misdemeanors. Impeachment was put into the Constitution for a reason. I think it was perhaps one of the most arrogant things I've ever seen in my life for [House Speaker] Nancy Pelosi, on the day after Democrats won control of the House, to make this announcement as though this was Moses coming down with the tablets, that impeachment's been taken off the table. Well who the hell is she to take it off the table? It's part...
...minds because their principles tell them to. John Quincy Adams, son of Founding Father John Adams, became a national figure in his own right by working with Southerners. President George Washington, a Virginian, gave him his first job. President James Monroe, another Virginian, made him Secretary of State. And Speaker of the House Henry Clay, a Kentuckian, helped him win the presidency when the election of 1824 was thrown to the House of Representatives. For most of his career, Adams believed the South would handle slavery on its own, wiping the great blot from national life. By his 60s, however...
...former Massachusetts House speaker, Flaherty won the editorial endorsements of several newspapers, including The Boston Globe, Cambridge Chronicle, and Somerville Journal...
Also at that time, Harvard was welcoming Microsoft founder Bill Gates as the University’s commencement speaker. In his speech, he observed that “there is no question that the faculty, the alumni, the students, and the benefactors of Harvard have used their power to improve the lives of people here and around the world.” “Can we do more?” he asked...