Word: commander
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Newt Gingrich's office, decorated with bloody Civil War battle scenes, makes an ideal command headquarters. Atop the highest ground in the city, he can survey the entire territory he hopes to conquer-and plot the ambush he says can clinch that victory. By fall, Gingrich predicted in an interview with TIME, the Republican Congress will have passed a raft of bills to implement its seven-year plan to balance the budget and will confront Bill Clinton with an excruciating choice. He will have to sign on to spending cuts that will inflame his Democratic supporters or veto them...
Even if he doesn't get the position, sources said, he will likely be the second-in-command within the new leadership structure...
DIED. RAY MCKINLEY, 84, drummer, singer, and pop-orchestra maestro whose crossbreeding of boogie-woogie with Big Band gave birth to a string of hits, including the memorable musical command Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar; in Largo, Florida...
...lacking willing leadership, the group was inactive from 1992 until 1994, when Khalid K. Brathwaite '97 took command. He organized a meeting last spring that attracted about 20 students of mixed heritage...
...right-wing update of the old red menace. So here, lighting a flame under Cold War II, is Crimson Tide, a burly, chatty melodrama about the imminence of annihilation. On a U.S. nuclear submarine, only two men-grizzled old Captain Ramsey (Gene Hackman) and his starchy second-in-command, Lieut. Commander Ron Hunter (Denzel Washington)-have the power to trigger the apocalypse or, just maybe, prevent...