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Meanwhile, council Treasurer Beth A. Stewart'00, who also is in her second year on the council, has plastered the campus with posters promising "Action, for a Change." Stewart, who interned this summer in the office of House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) and is a member of the conservative Salient, has vowed to move the council toward an agenda focused primarily on quality-of-life issues...
Whenever Newt Gingrich needs a little extra motivation to keep off the 30 pounds he has lost since summer, all he has to do is look at Bill Paxon. Paxon is the lean, boyish, irrepressibly upbeat Congressman from upstate New York who might have become Speaker of the House last July if the attempt to overthrow Gingrich had succeeded. The coup failed, Paxon was forced to resign his leadership post and Gingrich has since reasserted a semblance of control, over both his weight and his troops...
...once loyal lieutenant has not skulked away in ignominy. In fact, Paxon's star is rising again, thanks to an aggressive seduction campaign by his fellow House Republicans. As Gingrich has surely noticed, the man who would succeed him has been busy shuttling around the country, raising money for his colleagues and storing away political IOUs for the moment the post-Newt era arrives. Gingrich's loyalists are feigning indifference in public while fuming in private. "Paxon betrayed his own mentor," snipes one. "Is that the kind of leader we want...
...answer is yes--the sooner the better. "When I think of whom I want to see as the face of the Republican Party," says Oklahoma's Steve Largent, "I think of Bill Paxon." Largent is one of the group of disgruntled conservatives who fomented the rebellion that nearly toppled Gingrich. But Largent and others like him say that even if Gingrich has improved as manager of the G.O.P. majority, this hasn't eased the burden imposed on all Republicans by the Speaker's dismal public-approval ratings. "He's still less popular than O.J. Simpson and the Unabomber," complains Largent...
...Tony- and Pulitzer-Prize winning Rent--produced by his main competetor for the money. After describing it with much disgust, John declares that "people writhing around...singing political slogans does not constitute opera." Other potentially humorous moments in the text also ring with underscored conservative sentiments. Newt Gingrich is described as a "battling visionary" comparable to Susan B. Anthony and Martin Luther King. Also, when pondering his Norwegian heritage, John thinks, "If we aren't the chosen people, then why did God make us so close to the standard...