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...seems to be losing ground as well. Since Ireland became president in 1992, the number of NOW chapters has dropped from 800 to 600, as inactive groups were shut down. In California alone, membership has fallen from 39,758 in 1990 to 31,168 in mid-1995, which leads Bruce, for one, to question the 270,000 membership figure touted by the national office. "The organization has turned inward, and there is no new vision," says Marie Jose Ragab, president of Dulles NOW in Virginia...
...interests were at odds with his own. He learned the hard way that this stage of the game, the stage at which Bob Dole is the unchallenged master, was not his strength. Nor was he entirely suited to the housekeeping details his new job entailed. By autumn, he had fallen months behind on basic House assignments, like passing the 13 regular spending bills on time. When his Democratic foil Barney Frank is asked to assess Gingrich's performance this year, he says, "I am very pleasantly surprised. He's been much worse than I expected...
...burden in curing poverty. His friend and sometime guru Arianna Huffington regularly urges her Republican friends to tithe 10% of their income to the poor. She has urged Gingrich to join her, but he has not. Nor has he explained why, even as the top marginal tax rate has fallen for the past 14 years, the taxpayers who have benefited the most--those who earn $125,000 or more a year--still give only 3.3% to charity, including cultural institutions like orchestras that do not address the plight of the poor...
...thought his state-of-the-Speaker address last January was remarkable. He talked about cities, racial problems, the need for opportunity. But since that time, he has shown little of that large-heartedness. He seems like such a contradiction, because he obviously has big ideas. Yet he has fallen prey many times to petty mishaps that seem to emanate from part of his personality. You cannot brush off such incidents as just tiny mistakes...
...ordinary Jews and Christians, it's impossible to maintain scientific detachment about ancient clay pots and fallen stones and inscriptions being dug up in the Holy Land. Hundreds of millions of people grew up listening to Bible stories, and even those who haven't set foot in a church or synagogue for years still carry with them the lessons of these stirring tales of great deeds, great evil, great miracles and great belief. Many may be able to accept the proposition that some of the Bible is fictional. But they are still deeply gratified to learn that much...