Word: firebrands
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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MARRIED. NEWT GINGRICH, 57, Republican firebrand, former House Speaker, and techie futurist; and CALLISTA BISEK, 34, a congressional aide with whom he had a longtime affair; in Alexandria, Va. It is his third marriage, her first...
Despite the luxe, most of them are populists at heart. Reaud has a photograph in his office lobby of one of his heroes, firebrand United Mine Workers president John L. Lewis. Levin says one of his formative experiences was being part of the first racially integrated class at the University of Florida Law School. Furth, whose father was a union steelworker, is a fervent New Dealer who drives a Rolls-Royce with the license plate ROBEY ST. to remind him of his humble beginnings on the far South Side of Chicago...
...Feminist firebrand Catharine A. MacKinnon and former Solicitor General Charles Fried squared off last night to argue the constitutionality of a women's rights law presently under review by the Supreme Court...
...tide soon turned, however, and three factors helped Gore smother Bradley: Money, media and the machine. Gore's ad campaign exposed Bradley's conservative Senate voting record and contested his position on nearly every major issue. The media effectively ignored Bradley during the heat of primary season because of firebrand John McCain--who also took a chunk of the independent vote with him. And the continual whoosh of endorsements in every state from elected officials--from town crier to state senator--made Gore seem invincible. Especially because Gore has been running since 1996, it was only natural that...
...Keyes' big issues are the foundations of social conservatism--pro-life, anti-homosexual, and "pro-family." He opposes gun control and would, in his pipe-dream administration, abolish the federal income tax. He favors school prayer. Keyes stands out among similar arch-conservatives for his firebrand speaking, filled with harangues against the immoral left and punctuated with index fingers gesturing upwards, probably to Almighty God. And while these stands are boilerplate conservative--or at least boilerplate far, far right conservative--Keyes is close to unique in the party for his race talk. He is one of very few Republicans willing...