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...what Newt says is mostly not true. Audiences love it -- as they loved Reagan -- even when they know that what they're hearing is often baseless. For many | who applaud Gingrich and Limbaugh, the catchy rantings are acceptable caricatures of a caricature they already despise -- government. Falsity is forgiven because the target of Gingrich's critiques (like Limbaugh's and Reagan's) is deemed worthy of vituperative attack. As an aspiring congressional candidate in 1978, Gingrich admonished a gathering of college Republicans. "Don't try to educate ((the public))," he said. "That's not your job." Gingrich clearly sees...
...have quite a bit of prodding, mainly from next to fellow sports Cubist Mike Ginsberg, a Baltimorean who has never quite forgiven the Colts for leaving 10 years ago. But for the most part, the words came from inside myself. Once given the possibility of taunting Indy, I took it as far as I could...
That Crimson "streak" has now finished at an ugly 0-7-1 in non-conference games on the season. But with nothing really to play for against Hartwick (9-4-2), Harvard (4-8-1, 4-1-0 Ivy) could be forgiven for letting its own stretch of three games without a loss come to a quick conclusion...
...with only Boston College and Hartwick left as non-conference opponents, and with three of its four remaining Ivy games at home, Harvard could be forgiven for looking past its current clutter to what could conceivably be a Cinderella postseason appearance in a sub-500 campaign...
...world in which raw power is still held in the highest respect may be forgiven if it is unimpressed with a leader so patently averse to using it. In Clinton's world, intellectual effort is too often directed at blaming others. The President portrays himself variously as the victim of a public that fears change, a cynical post-Watergate nation or the fractionated, post-cold war world. What happens now that U.S. marines have drawn Haitian blood? If the Haiti policy doesn't go well, the Administration will revert to the story it had already begun retailing on "deep background...