Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cambridge to speak at the Harvard Hillel, the embattled representative yesterday told a questioner, "I'm not retiring [from the House]" upon leaving the building. Frank, who is awaiting a House Ethics Committee inquiry, said earlier this week that he would not resign pending that committee's investigation...
...callously judgemental is a travesty. Who is Master Pfister--or North House Master J. Woodland Hastings or any other Harvard official--to decide what is garbage and what is not? The simple truth of the matter is that members of the Harvard community are being denied the right to speak out in a manner which they find effective...
...have been generally sympathetic. The scandal does not involve seducing a minor, as it does with Lukens, or adultery, since Frank is single. It is an incident from a past secret life that has come back to haunt a legislator who is widely respected. Frank can debate and speak extemporaneously better than almost anyone else in the House, and he tackles some of its more complex problems like immigration and housing. Back home, he makes sure constituents get help from 18 staffers who track down Social Security checks and Medicaid benefits. Though he freely disclosed in 1987 that...
...white Honda CRX, he confided, only because he did not want to risk denting his Maserati. He helped out in a research lab for a measly $100 a week, he said, only because his family had cut him off when he failed to go to Harvard. He would not speak French, he said, only because Americans had such atrocious accents. He was fond of showing pictures of family mansions clipped out of magazines. When going away for a few days he would confide he was off for some sailing with the Kennedys. He spent $200 a month at the Campus...
Eventually, a few acquaintances began to wonder about Maurice. It appeared odd, to say the least, that he could speak only halting French. And what about those vivid blue contact lenses? And where did he get that Southern accent? If he was in his mid-30s as he looked, what was he doing in school? Was this guy for real...