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House Speaker Newt Gingrich sternly reminded rebellious House Republicans who are balking on promised GOP tax cuts that President Bush lost his 1992 re-election bid because he reneged on his "Read my lips: no new taxes" pledge. "It destroyed his presidency," Gingrich told a U.S. Chamber of Commerce town meeting broadcast around the country. Gingrich andHouse Majority Leader Dick Armey(R-Tx.) called on voters to put grassroots pressure on the rebel representatives -- 102 of the 230-member GOP caucus -- to "keep our word on theContract." The rebels want to restrict tax credits to families with incomes no higher...
...outcome of the most recent election only reinforces the claim that incumbents are virtually impossible to defeat. While the Republican party did capture both houses of Congress for the first time since 1952, the large number of open seats played a decisive role, especially in the Senate. In that chamber, the Republicans gained eight seats but six of them had been left vacant after the incumbents retired. The only incumbents defeated were Jim Sasser of Tennessee and Harris Wofford of Pennsylvania. Unpopular incumbents, like New Jersey's Frank Lautenberg, won reelection primarily because of superior fund-raising skills. Term limits...
Appearances can be deceiving. Week after week, the Republican revolution proceeded apace. Bill after bill barreled through the House of Representatives. The Republicans won easily. The most important votes weren't even close. Outside the House chamber, however, the picture was very different. Last week House Republicans were showing their first real signs of strain since their euphoric takeover in January. The media were filled with images of the President sharing tacos and corn nibblets with the clientele of an elementary-school cafeteria in Alexandria, Virginia�a direct hit in the public relations war over Republican plans to curb...
When cellist Yeesun Kim entered with the quartet's second motive, she introduced the audience to a mode of playing that can only be called chamber music perfection. Kim's bow moved so immaculately that one could not tell if it actually touched the string; from the listener's perspective, there was only a pristine sound that came from her direction. Moreover, Kim's ironclad intonation placed her in a class of her own. Her sound suits the medium perfectly--not overly soloistic, yet unquestionably striking. She is surely the most outstanding cellist in chamber music today...
...movement in its recapitulation. He fortunately saved some of the stridence for the bold, personal statements of the second movement's Largo ma non troppo. In the cantabile section of the movement, violist Hsin'Yun Hwang offered solo playing of utmost sincerity with none of dryness that pervades chamber music today...