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...days when he bestrode Washington like a colossus, Newt Gingrich found inspiration in great military leaders of old, from Ataturk to Wellington. Last week, as Gingrich faced one of the lowest points of his rocky speakership, history offered a more cautionary lesson. It was that of a Roman general who became master of the empire, only to find that his own inner circle posed a greater threat than any enemy he had met on the battlefield. Last Tuesday evening, when a handful of conspirators met in the Capitol to plot against their Speaker, Gingrich could not help noticing where they...
...particles that resemble ordinary protons and electrons but carry an opposite charge. But when NASA controllers trained the orbiting Compton Gamma Ray Observatory on this core region and beamed the data back, Purcell saw something on his computer screen at Northwestern University that nobody could have predicted: a veritable colossus of antimatter, a vast fountain spewing out from the center of our galaxy and reaching trillions of miles into space...
...CANDIDATE] COLIN POWELL FORMER CHAIRMAN OF JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF [SIGN OF RUNNING] No real ones, as usual [PLAUSIBILITY FACTOR] He's the colossus of the field--if he wants it [WANTS TO REMIND US OF:] Colin Powell [ACTUALLY REMINDS US OF:] Hamlet...
...consumer electronics took another step forward last week when Microsoft agreed to shell out $425 million to buy WebTV, a struggling manufacturer of Net-surfing set-top boxes. Despite a glitzy $50 million holiday advertising campaign, WebTV sales were abysmal, reportedly just 50,000 units. So why did the colossus of Redmond, Washington, bite at such...
Looming above the year's other personalities like a dazed Colossus was the personality of the past quarter-century, O.J. Simpson, along with his enlarging retinue of lawyers, prosecutors, agents, accusers, defenders, police, forensic experts, talk-show hosts and Faye Resnick. Most of the media decided that there was nothing more important for the public to know about--not Russia, not China, not Iran, not much of the U.S.--than O.J. Those with an interest in history could note that America's involvement with O.J. was nearing the length of its involvement in World War II, which was not covered...