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...blind, the one-eyed brassy broad is queen, I suppose, because we naïve little actor-types just worshipped her. Part of Frances’s mystique was her past contact with a special subset of actors to which Lithgow, this year’s Harvard Commencement speaker, belongs...
...right off the bat, I’m flustered and my first couple of questions shows it. I ask him how he was chosen to be Commencement speaker, and only after I speak do I realize that there’s no way he could know the answer to that—“Well, I imagine that I was vetted before they talked to me,” he points out with a chuckle...
Lithgow admits that the speaker at his own Commencement, the venerable diplomat and political thinker Edwin O. Reischauer, probably made some very important statements in his address. “But I have no idea what he said,” he guffaws...
...Republicans are so eager to change the storyline that House Speaker Dennis Hastert got a standing ovation when he announced, at a private meeting with House Republicans in the Capitol basement last week, that he was ready to sound a retreat on changes in House ethics rules that he engineered last December. Democrats on the House ethics committee, which is the only one where they hold as many seats as Republicans, had shut it down to protest a rule change that required the support of a majority of committee members before any investigation could proceed. They charged that...
...from an unlikely political quarter--the Congress. A group of House Republicans and Democrats, national-security hawks and environmentalists, has been meeting quietly for the past month, trying to gin up bipartisan alternative-energy legislation. A leader of the group, Republican Jim Saxton of New Jersey, has met with Speaker Dennis Hastert, who expressed cautious enthusiasm about the idea. "Look, the Federal Government has subsidized every major transportation advance in our nation's history," Saxton told me, "and this is one with national-security implications, given our dependence on oil from the Middle East." Political implications too: an ambitious energy...