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NEWT GINGRICH USED TO DREAM last spring about the day when he would get to sit down and play a kind of Russian roulette with the President. The stakes would be very high. The whole government would be held hostage while the country waited to see who would blink. The House Speaker would confront Bill Clinton with a choice: Sign a historic balanced-budget plan on Republican terms or watch the government shut down. ''Which of the two of us do you think cares more about the government not showing up?" Gingrich asked...
...blink of an eye these days, a carefully built construct of regulations can be blown away without so much as a formal hearing. As part of a crusade to curb federal authority, and with only a simple assertion that the regulations are burdensome, two congressional committees have sent to the floor for a vote this week legislation that would repeal federal standards. There would be no protection against patients' being restrained, no standards on staffing or when someone could be discharged after using up all his or her money. Niceties like nurses would be optional, since there is no requirement...
...trying to "send a message." Although director Oliver Stone obviously seeks to lay bare the media-crazy, hyped-up, and knocked-down society we live in, we begin to question his methods when his satire goes too far. With alarmingly fast-paced cuts, murders flicker by in the blink of an eye, only to disturb, perhaps deeply, just moments later. The cry of "That's the point!" can only go so far in defending movies that, in truth, are pounding the point--and the viewer--into the ground...
...resign. It is the honorable thing to do for this country, for this Senate." Thirty-three months after embarking on an often clumsy campaign of threats and lies to rescue his 27-year Senate career, Oregon's junior Senator had finally rediscovered his dignity. Bowing his head momentarily to blink back tears, Packwood delivered his valedictory: "I leave this institution not with malice but with love...
...blink of an eye, ATF agents found a piece of blown-away truck axle. In what seemed just moments later, Timothy McVeigh was in police custody. The first hours and days after the Oklahoma City bombing convinced many that justice would be swiftly done. Then real-life rhythms took over. Nearly three weeks after the blast, John Doe No. 2 is still at large, and the immensity of the task facing the feds has sunk in. "It's now down to basic investigation and luck," one official admitted. Said another federal lawman: "I think we may be a year putting...