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When the history of Newt Gingrich's ethical predicaments is written, one of the better ironies will be that the struggle to decide the Speaker's fate gave rise to--what else?--a whole new ethical funk. No matter what its outcome, the vote on whether Gingrich remains as Speaker of the House will reverberate through the work of the next Congress and its balance of terror between Republicans and Democrats. But before that, Newt's delicate condition and the ways in which his party rushed to his rescue will offer a priceless view of just how badly Washington handles...
...VILLAIN IS THE CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE. DONALD SUTHERLAND, HE'S THE HEAVY. He's such a bad guy, I hadn't even noticed he was a Republican...
...last experience with the HRO was in 1971, so I may be a bit rusty,” Gross wrote in an e-mail. But the orchestra’s business manager, violinist Alexander U. Fortes ’07, said that Gross is a “captivating speaker.” And when asked whether the Copland performance would be improved by the participation of the musically-inclined Gross in place of Summers, Fortes said, “I think it very well may.” Even if the switch of narrators leads to a better performance...
...half an hour could yield the same number of options. The second intervention, Programming, involves convincing people that spaces are worth using. Kayden proposes a day called “Space Talks 101.” The yearly event would feature 100 talks, 10 each hour, by esteemed speakers at social spaces all across campus. As people move from speaker to speaker, they’ll come to think of all the disparate spaces as a “network,” and minds will change. “Designating a social space as such converts the thinking...
...John Harvard’s on Sunday night to congratulate each other and chat over refreshments, their conversation centered on broad goals for the year—many of which depended on hitting the ground running, they said.“We want to start early on Class Day speaker, one of the focal points of what we do,” said Chestnut. “One reason last year was not so successful was that they didn’t get an early enough start,” he added, referring to what Mehta called disappointment over last...