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...also has a personal score to settle with the President. Friends and allies say he blames Clinton for the Democrats' 1996 ad campaign painting Gingrich as an extremist and making him more vulnerable to the subsequent congressional investigation into his ethics. (For making political use of a tax-exempt organization, Gingrich became the first Speaker in history to be punished by the House; he was forced to pay a $300,000 fine.) Meeting with Democratic leaders the day the Starr report arrived on Capitol Hill, Gingrich could not resist rehashing how unfairly he thought he had been treated...
Interestingly, this interracial-itis only seems to affect whites. Minorities are exempt; a charge that members of historically oppressed groups have "fetishes" slides off like butter on a hot Teflon-coated pan. It is our "get out of jail free" card, and I thought I had one of those cards until last summer. Now I am not so sure...
...Stepping into the line of fire is not something you do by instinct," Merletti has said. "It's a perishable skill." The bodyguards earn $90,000 on average plus limited overtime pay. Cockell makes about $110,000 but is exempt from overtime...
...government introduced a new class of affordable, inflation-indexed savings bonds to protect investors even if the cost of living is ballooning. Interest on the bonds, which debut Sept. 1 in denominations ranging from $50 to $10,000, will be tax deferred until cashed in and may be tax exempt if used to help fund college or other higher learning...
Instead, the City Council decided to consider an amendment to the noise ordinance that would exempt bell and clock towers from the regulation. In response, the licensing committee removed the matter from Tuesday's agenda...