Word: firebrands
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These were, as he might say, fluid years for Gingrich. As a student and, later, professor, Gingrich was no conservative firebrand; at Tulane, he admits, he smoked pot; protested the Administration's decision to censor a photo of a nude sculpture in the school newspaper, the Hullabaloo; and generally maintained a high profile as a Rockefeller Republican, serving as the Louisiana coordinator of that campaign in 1968. At West Georgia he started the environmental-studies program, an outpost on the lefty fringes of academia...
...ethics committee plans to hire will poke around in the Gingrich money machine until the investigator hits something foul. If the ethics committee balks at any request by the counsel to expand the probe, the Democrats can be counted on to recall the words of a celebrated House firebrand. To place limits on the work of the special counsel, he declared, would be seen as "an attempt by the ethics committee to control the scope and direction of the investigation.'' Who said that? Gingrich did, seven years ago, when he was pushing to widen the investigation of Jim Wright...
Malone said the group would like to bring a speaker to campus. ("A conservative firebrand would be great," he said...
...economic, political and security problems. But overall, Haiti is enjoying a rare bout of freedom, political stability and economic rebuilding. Much of the credit goes, surprisingly, to the once and present chief executive, who since his triumphant restoration last Oct. 15 has managed a personal transubstantiation from revolutionary firebrand to liberal economic reformer...
...tape has become more popular, Koernke has been speaking continuously. He has allied himself at various times with movement firebrand Linda Thompson and the Militia of Montana, one of the most aggressive purveyors of the militia concept. Nine months ago, G. Michael Callahan, an Arizona coin and precious-metals dealer, began sponsoring The Intelligence Report five days a week on short-wave radio. Koernke has made two popular sequels to his video. And all that was before Oklahoma City...