Word: doled
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...politics, appearances are everything. To assuage his critics, Newt Gingrich last week started paying down his debt to the ethics committee and promised not to borrow more than $150,000 from Bob Dole. But the appearance that Washington was talking about was more cosmetic: a newly svelte and shorn Speaker. Gingrich is following a regimen of careful eating and increased exercise that has resulted in a loss of nearly 20 lbs. And the Georgia mop-top is getting his hair cut every two to three weeks. Result: a slimmer, more sophisticated Speaker. But Newt's G.O.P. critics say he also...
...marrow-transplant program at Emory University School of Medicine, is already using the CellPro procedure on young leukemia patients. "I don't have any other device that works as well to offer these people," he says. Another supporter is former Senator Birch Baye, who co-authored the 1980 Baye-Dole Act, which gives the government the power to seize a patent in the name of public health or safety and issue a license. Baye says the CellPro case perfectly illustrates the law's intent: to get new treatments to the people who need them. It may not work, since...
...aren't politicians real? It seems that once a person enters the political arena, he lives a fairy-tale existence [NATION, April 28]. In the latest episode, House Speaker Newt Gingrich's fairy godfather, Bob Dole, gives his old friend a sweetheart loan (possibly from campaign contributions) that most Americans would be unable to give their own son or daughter. Mother Goose couldn't write a better fairy tale. SANFORD DU ROFF Tarzana, Calif...
What is the big deal about Dole's lending Gingrich some needed money? Friends do it often--can't public servants? Dole was raised in an era when integrity and kindness were venerated. Dole's bailing out Newt saved his career and probably his marriage. JASON M. SILVERMAN Harleysville...
...which every celebrity finds it necessary to bare his soul and open her closet, we need a monument to a man who would have disdained such displays. Why, even poor Bob Dole found himself going up and down America for months talking about how reluctant he was to talk about the war injuries he could not stop talking about...