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...most recent terrorist act will not delay conclusion of these negotiations. And we hope and pray that Israelis and Palestinians will build on these agreements and make the dream of peace a reality, speedily and in our time. --David Andorsky '97, chair, Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel; Adam Kleinbaum '98, chair-elect, Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel; Yuval Segal '97, co-chair, Harvard Students for Israel
WASHINGTON, D.C.: In a final push just days before the House votes on whether to re-elect Newt Gingrich as Speaker, the Republican political machine has jumped into action to support its once all-powerful, now flailing leader. As TIME Washington correspondent Karen Tumulty reports, "Virtually everyone of any stature was involved" in the campaign waged to save Newt's job. Even Gingrich himself got on the phone to House Republicans to personally plead for votes, says TIME's Jay Carney. On Friday, Republican National Committee Chairman Haley Barbour lept to Gingrich's side in support, in the form...
...rules, according to the Associated Press, but will stop short of imposing a more serious punishment such as a censure, which would make him ineligible to serve as Speaker. The recommendation is expected to go to the full ethics committee next Wednesday, a day after the House votes to elect a Speaker. Gingrich must now address the only remaining obstacle to his re-election to the post: possible defections from his own party. Some Republicans are leery of re-electing Gingrich unless he has been exonerated by the Ethics Committee, which has already dismissed more than 70 of the allegations...
...weeks, Gingrich had been embroiled in a crisis. While voters decided on Nov. 5 to give his G.O.P. majority another chance, his House colleagues were increasingly tense about doing the same for him. The problem was timing. The House is scheduled to re-elect the Speaker on Jan. 7, and the ethics committee is scrambling to finish its work before that. While Gingrich's admission on Saturday--essentially a guilty plea to violations uncovered by the ethics committee's four-panel subcommittee--was clearly an attempt to speed the process, it also reflected a sharp, sudden change of course from...
...recorded in January, when China's President Jiang Zemin singled him out from a crowd of his peers for a handshake when he was in Beijing. The votes cast last week by the 400--themselves carefully screened by Beijing--were almost a formality. It may have been historic: to elect the first Chinese chief executive since Hong Kong became a British colony in 1842. But it was also ominous...