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...have bad news for you. Those trips you had planned in January--forget 'em. We will be working almost every day in January, starting with the 4th." STENY HOYER, Maryland Democrat who will become the House majority leader, telling reporters about the new five-day work schedule for members of the House of Representatives...
DIED. Jeane Kirkpatrick, 80, erudite, acerbic first female U.S. ambassador to the U.N., whose impassioned neoconservatism and blunt assessments of Democrats made her a G.O.P. star; in Bethesda, Md. Disgusted with what she perceived as the U.S.'s weak image under Jimmy Carter, the longtime Democrat, who did not formally switch parties until 1985, became publicly known as an ardent anticommunist and one of Ronald Reagan's closest foreign policy advisers. She helped Reagan distinguish between unfriendly Marxist "totalitarian" regimes and acceptable, rightist "authoritarian" ones; lambasted targets from the Soviet Union to the U.N. Security Council; and in a speech...
...emerging constituency, especially the 20- and 30-year-olds' generation, are not prone to the old categories, they don't care about Republican or Democrat, they don't care about conservative or liberalism, they say let's just do what's right to love our neighbor," he says. "I went into the Christian Coalition thinking maybe we can turn one of these traditional narrow organizations and broaden it into these compassion issues. But it didn't work...
...talk by reminiscing about the illustrator of the class’s textbook, “Molecular Biology of the Gene,” which he authored. According to Watson, the illustrator was “an old-fashioned socialist,” whereas Watson described himself as a Democrat, “but sort of in the Lou Dobbs camp. I just think there should be a wall, that our country shouldn’t speak Spanish.” Next, discussing evolutionary bases of cultural diversity, Watson spoke about why Swedes and Greeks tended to be taciturn...
...almost relieved that he was willing now to take over the Defense Department. Simply hearing Gates acknowledge that the U.S. was not winning the war is "a necessary refreshing breath of reality," Levin said. Gates's candor is "something that has been sorely lacking," added Sen. Hillary Clinton, another Democrat on the committee...