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Returning from a book tour in which he apologized for everything but the end of Seinfeld, Newt was looking calm, thin and happy. Then James Dobson, the country's most powerful Christian activist, with 28 million radio listeners, came calling, threatening to bolt the party unless Gingrich stones the adulterer in the Oval Office and delivers candidates to Dobson's liking, not ones who use him and don't take his calls in the morning...
...every Republican is comfortable with the influence Dobson and others are exerting over the party. "No matter what you do, they are never satisfied," complains an adviser to the G.O.P. House leadership. For now, however, Dobson's threat to bolt the party--and to work to defeat G.O.P. incumbents who don't vote according to his views--is being greeted with great solemnity. Republican House leaders will deliver a progress report to Dobson when he flies to Washington this week from his headquarters in Colorado Springs. And to keep the pressure on, the famously camera-shy Dobson will tour...
...landscape to where the air is sweeter, the food tastes better, the work seems less daunting, the alarm clocks are not pressing and the rooms are bathed in light. OK, perhaps some of these claims simply reflect the misty-eyed longings of a college student more than ready to bolt out of here for a week, but one thing is for certain--at home things look better because I have enough light to see them...
...panel included Lisa Drake, an environmental engineer; Penny Ellard '88, a project manager and software engineer at Bolt, Beranek and New-man, a computer technology firm; and Lorna Gibson, an MIT materials engineer professor...
...whose owners routinely hold up municipalities for new stadium deals--or bolt town in the middle of the night for more remunerative burgs--the $17.6 billion is just another example of its ability to play hardball. Each team will get a windfall of about $75 million a team per season, although much of that will go into players' salaries. After five years the NFL can renegotiate for even higher payoffs...