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...Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to lobby city and state officials about building a zoo. He pressed his cause for the next two years, with arguments that echo eerily 40 years later. "A few minutes' conversation with Newton leaves an awed adult with a flying start toward an inferiority complex," reporter Jace Bennett wrote in the Harrisburg Evening News. "Don't you know an African lion costs only $250. And it's easily gotten!" argued the boy crusader. "We wouldn't even have to start out with the more expensive animals. And we wouldn't have to start with animals that need houses...
...expect that Newt and his cohort would not reward followers and punish foes. On the other hand, by not demanding some sacrifice from his own supporters, Gingrich and his movement risk being seen as just another engine of interest-group politics, albeit a different set of interest groups. Bill Bennett, the former Education Secretary and maven of the Republican moralists, worries about this. "What's come across quite clearly is that we Republicans are smart and serious and that we are going to shrink the government. What hasn't come across is a lot of compassion. It's not enough...
...line, and his phrasings bring out the real meaning of a song." On Thursday, ABC television will air a two-hour birthday special, which was taped in November. Among the stars who gathered to honor the "Chairman of the Board" are: Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Bono, Tony Bennett, and Natalie Cole...
...entertainment spectacle, from Hard Copy to Jade, that doesn't trade in the lurid and bizarre. At least in the talk shows, the moral is always loud and clear: Respect yourself, listen to others, stop beating on your wife. In fact it's hard to see how The Bill Bennett Show, if there were to be such a thing, could deliver a more pointed sermon. Or would he prefer to see the feckless Susan, for example, tarred and feathered by the studio audience instead of being merely booed and shamed...
There is something morally repulsive about the talks, but it's not anything Bennett or his co-crusader Senator Joseph Lieberman has seen fit to mention. Watch for a few hours, and you get the claustrophobic sense of lives that have never seen the light of some external judgment, of people who have never before been listened to, and certainly never been taken seriously if they were. "What kind of people would let themselves be humiliated like this?" is often asked, sniffily, by the shows' detractors. And the answer, for the most part, is people who are so needy...