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Acting directly or through subordinates, this trio last week worked to spread a long-standing unsubstantiated rumor designed to humiliate new House Speaker Thomas Foley. Just as Foley was poised to take the gavel from departing Speaker Jim Wright's hand, a memo from the Republican National Committee was circulating to state party chairmen and G.O.P. Congressmen. Titled "Tom Foley: Out of the Liberal Closet," the memo compared his voting record with that of Congressman Barney Frank of Massachusetts, an acknowledged homosexual. For days, an aide to Republican minority whip Newt Gingrich had been calling more than a dozen reporters...
...obscure corner of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), molecular biologist Norton Zinder strode to a 30-ft.-long oval conference table, sat down and rapped his gavel for order. A hush settled over the Human Genome Advisory Committee, an unlikely assemblage of computer experts, biologists, ethicists, industry scientists and engineers. "Today we begin," chairman Zinder declared. "We are initiating an unending study of human biology. Whatever it's going to be, it will be an adventure, a priceless endeavor. And when it's done, someone else will sit down and say, 'It's time to begin...
Last year, WEEI auctioned off State Senate President Billy Bulger's gavel for $900 to raise money in a similar holiday fundraising drive...
...President and chairing the judiciary committee hearings that denied former Solicitor General Robert Bork a seat on the Supreme Court. But this is Biden's first event since February, when he was felled by a life-threatening brain aneurysm. Before he returns to Washington, before he bangs the gavel to open an important set of foreign policy hearings this Wednesday, before he grants any interviews, he wanted to come to the place where it all began so that he could begin again...
...this affair was so organized it was downright Republican. Pearls and silk dresses were as much in evidence as bizarre headgear. No cigar haze wafted to the ceiling: the party made this its first no-smoking convention. . The aisles were crowded, but the speaker did not pound his gavel and yell for the marshals to clear them. The clusters around the states' computer terminals resembled Wall Street trading pits. And the delegates were so thin. "It used to be," says Political Consultant Mandy Grunwald, "that the quintessential Democratic conventioneer weighed about 250 lbs. Now everyone is slimmed down and aerobically...