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...appear that Foley had given up, the whispered criticisms among fickle Capitol Hill insiders grew louder. They have always regarded his speakership as something of an accident. But only five years ago, his gentle dignity and judicious temperament were hailed as just what the House needed after his predecessor, Jim Wright, resigned amid scandal. Now those qualities of Foley's are more often seen as weakness -- something his party cannot afford in the face of the strongest and most confrontational Republican force in decades. Sniped a Democratic House aide: "Many of us are hoping that his constituents will do what...
Sadly, last week, one of Hall's successors at the BSA's helm failed to exhibit the restraint of her predecessor...
...Kyle Kimball is a good guy who put his best effort in the Kroks, but inevitably, a new manager has to deal with problems beyond his experience," said Kimball's predecessor, former Krok general manager Stephen S. Fleming '93. "In most ways, he did a fine job and was a good manager of the Kroks...
...During the tenure of my predecessor and my term as manager, we followed scrupulous accounting procedures. We documented every penny that came in and that went out," Fleming said. "The system had been put in place and what happened during the '93-'94 school year was in the context of a functioning system...
...press has an obligation not to make assumptions and assertions without damn good evidence," said Councillor Alice K. Wolf, Reeves' predecessor as mayor...