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...this phenomenon is not relegated to University life. Local politicians, from Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino to State House Speaker Salvatore F. Dimasi, show solidarity with their electorate by dropping their r’s. Even the effete Kennedy’s, New England’s most famed political clan, are known for their uniquely Boston pronunciations...
Franken, Harvard’s Class Day speaker in 2002 and a Shorenstein fellow in the spring of 2003, concluded the video with a quote from President Bill Clinton, saying, “There’s nothing wrong with America that can’t be fixed by what’s right with America, or, as I would add, by what’s right with Minnesota...
...debate got under way, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made clear that the resolution is just the first effort by Democrats to attach new fiscal restraints on an American military operation that is widely believed to have lost its way. "Let us be clear on one fundamental principle," Pelosi said. "We all support the troops." Then she added: "A vote of approval will set the stage for additional Iraq legislation which is set to come to the House floor...
...election look presentable, observers say. Though clan leaders involved with natural gas, cotton and other businesses all have power aspirations, they have given way to one candidate endorsed by the late dictator's powerful security apparatus: Deputy Premier Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov. The morning after the dictator's death, the Speaker of the National Parliament - who, under the Constitution, was to become acting President - was dismissed and arrested. The Constitution did not allow new Acting President Berdymukhammedov to run in the February election, but the rubber-stamp Parliament immediately amended it to allow...
...gaffology is getting out of hand. An obviously unintended misstatement is significant only if you think the speaker has accidentally revealed something true about himself or herself. It ought to reinforce some pre-existing suspicion: Bush's Pentagon doesn't care about civil liberties, or Chirac is losing his marbles. One TV commentator, trying to explain his ginned-up outrage over Boxer, accused her of thinking that a black woman can't be Secretary of State without children--a form of prejudice so convoluted that I doubt anyone actually suffers from...