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...consultant for a firm recruiting business for an Israeli free-trade zone. Turns out Gingrich has been promoting the business park to government officials in Israel. The Speaker maintains there is no conflict of interest and complained about being "smeared" by "tax and spend liberals" who detest his conservative ideas. "Why are wives being brought into this?" he asked. "It seems to me, since no taxpayer funds are involved, and it's an entirely private business, she ought to be let alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SPEAKER STRIKES BACK | 2/7/1995 | See Source »

...consultant for a firm recruiting business for an Israeli free-trade zone. Turns out Gingrich has been promoting the business park to government officials in Israel. The Speaker maintains there is no conflict of interest and complained about being "smeared" by "tax and spend liberals" who detest his conservative ideas. "Why are wives being brought into this?" he asked. "It seems to me, since no taxpayer funds are involved, and it's an entirely private business, she ought to be let alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SPEAKER STRIKES BACK | 2/6/1995 | See Source »

...detest fundamentalism and communalism," Nasrin announces in her preface, and that is about as subtle as Shame ever gets. Even though they have lived there for generations, the Duttas seem to have dropped into Bangladesh from Mars, so alien does the specter of sectarian violence from neighboring Muslims strike them. "Why was his motherland turning her back on him?" Suranjan wonders, lolling in bed. Only Nilanjana displays some apprehension of reality: "She was thinking that no one seemed to realize that something had to be done before something awful happened to all of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jane Austen She's Not | 8/15/1994 | See Source »

...Clint Eastwood, who in theory we detest butwho seems like a nice person...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Take the G-Train | 3/10/1994 | See Source »

...upset by Farrakhan and the other punks who run around the country getting famous by stirring up black anti-Semitism, even though I detest them, think their movements should be ostracized by the black community, and find obnoxious the lies they spew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Real Crisis Is Selfishness | 2/28/1994 | See Source »

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