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...year for the principle of a seven-year balanced budget; now he hoped to prove once and for all that he is capable of governing, not just breaking windows and upsetting the furniture in the House. So he sat with his advisers at the Old Ebbitt Grill on 15th Street, scribbling notes, picking at appetizers and searching for some magic mix of spending cuts, entitlement reductions, tax cuts and policy changes that could win an overwhelming majority of Republicans in Congress and still get the President's signature...
...Joshua's conquest would have taken place in the 13th century B.C. But British researcher Kathleen Kenyon, who excavated at Jericho for six years, found no evidence of destruction at that time. Indeed, says Dead Sea Scrolls curator emeritus Broshi, "the city was deserted from the beginning of the 15th century until the 11th century B.C." So was Ai, say Broshi and others. And so, according to archaeological surveys, was most of the land surrounding the cities. Says Broshi: "The central hill regions of Judea and Samaria were practically uninhabited. The Israelites didn't have to kill and burn...
Like a solicitous maitre d', Bill Gardner, the amiable New Hampshire secretary of state, welcomes each presidential candidate who walks into his high-ceilinged State House office. And between the fourth and the 15th of December, a gallimaufry of folks do just that. For during those two weeks, anyone with $1,000 and the nerve can get on the ballot in the nation's first primary...
...running against Bill Clinton. This year the bogey man is the increasingly unpopular House Speaker. In the Nov. 7 Kentucky Governor's election, Democrat Paul Patton won largely by selling himself as a defender of the weak against Newt the serial program killer. Now in California's 15th congressional district Gingrich has become a target of opportunity for Democrats trying to win a special Dec. 12 election to replace resigned Democratic Representative Norman Mineta...
...Kansas moderate Nancy Landon Kassebaum announced she would retire next year to pursue "the challenge of being a grandmother." She becomes the 10th Senator, and the second Republican, to leave office in 1996. In the House, Indiana Democrat Andrew Jacobs announced he would step down, the 18th Representative and 15th Democrat...