Word: broking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...capital since the British came to burn it in 1814. As spearhead of the revolution his party was supposed to effect, Gingrich equipped himself heavily, putting aside the seniority rules to install committee chairmen loyal to him and denying his assistance as a fund raiser to House members who broke discipline on important votes. No journalist's story about him was complete until it described him as the most powerful Speaker since Joe Cannon of Illinois in the early years of this century...
...doesn't re-enlist for the Senate, he says, it's not because he's disenchanted with public life. "Look," he says, getting energized, "the current rap on politics is that it's mean-spirited and uncivil, that this country is broke and you can't do anything. That's self-indulgent horse manure. We're the wealthiest, most powerful country in the world. Oh, gee, a politician is disappointed in the process and in what government can do," he says, his voice leavened with sarcasm. "Well, go to a military cemetery on Memorial Day and bitch about how democracy...
...logical claimant to Rabin's tough-guy peacemaker mantle; ironically his elegant eulogy for Netanyahu's fallen-hero brother Jonathan is reprinted in Hebrew textbooks. Another possible standard bearer is Haim Ramon, 46, the outgoing Minister of Interior who proved his vote-winning talents in 1994 when he broke party ranks and defeated the official Labor candidate for head of the Histadrut, the federation of trade unions. But this savvy lawyer and complete political pro is still paying dues for his defection. Both aspirants are equally chubby, personable and ambitious...
...Idol has fallen off his motorcycle and now another easy-riding idol, Keanu Reeves, has been felled in an accident on Sunset Boulevard. Police and Reeves' publicist agree it wasn't his fault (the driver of the Hyundai Excel who cut him off had better avoid Keanu fans). Reeves broke his ankle and was hospitalized for two days...
ROME: Hours before he was due to testify in a trial of a former Nazi officer, a key prosecution witness broke his pelvis Friday trying to flee. The witness, former SS Major Carl Hass, had volunteered to testify against former SS Major Erich Priebke, who is accused of executing 335 civilians in caves near Rome in 1944. Hass, 84, who fell while trying to climb over the terrace outside his second-story hotel room in Rome, is in stable condition and has agreed to testify from his hospital bed on Wednesday. The desperate escape attempt raised questions about...