Word: brawls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...saga of Newt Gingrich's ethics suddenly resembles a brawl between blindfolded boxers who flail away so wildly that each lands a haymaker on his own jaw. About the only certainty is that Gingrich's narrow re-election as Speaker of the House last Tuesday...
Concluding that an atmosphere conducive to fighting led to a brawl between patrons this summer, the Cambridge License Commission yesterday slapped The Spaghetti Club with a three-day suspension...
...kind of personal identification that went on in Visotzky's group, as when the group discusses Jacob, the wildly ambitious, God-haunted wanderer who hoodwinks Esau and goes on to wrestle a mysterious adversary, emerging with a limp and a blessing. Artist Hugh O'Donnell recalls the bloody brawl he had with his farmer father before the older man laughed and said, "You're all right," and accepted his son's calling. And Moyers himself speaks up. "At 40," says the man who started his career in the public eye as Lyndon Johnson's press secretary, "I did more wounding...
...Vice President Al Gore flew to Baton Rouge last Friday to preside over the reconciliation of two Democrats: Senate candidate Mary Landrieu and Congressman Cleo Fields, the state's leading black politician. The Gore intervention might seem like an awful lot of White House muscle to settle a neighborhood brawl. But the stakes are high in Louisiana's closely contested Senate race, which pits Landrieu against conservative Republican Louis ("Woody") Jenkins. When Fields finally endorsed Landrieu last week, it ended a feud that threatened not only to split the party but also to scuttle Democrats' chances of keeping the seat...
...BUSTER SOARIES, 44; SOMERSET, N.J.; youth worker In 1994 Soaries, pastor of the First Baptist Church in Somerset, intervened to secure the release of 12 middle-school boys jailed for leading a brawl. He then founded Brothers Working Together, which he says aims "to help young people realize that they have options beyond the street corner." The program, which offers guidance and tutoring to 60 at-risk students, was lauded by Governor Christine Whitman at the Republican Convention...