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...tall that White House aides are playing it down because it only invites future headlines about Clinton's approval rating dropping. What it means for Republicans is that any impeachment proceeding would be a complicated gift. A vote in the full House would be presided over by Speaker Newt Gingrich, a man with some of the lowest approval ratings in America. "The Republicans don't have a lot of credibility on this stuff," says a cautiously confident aide to the President. "Everyone thinks they're partisan." The prospect of a conviction in the Senate, where the trial stage...
During a break in the official program at the House Republican retreat last week in Williamsburg, Va., NEWT GINGRICH sidled up to BILL PAXON and asked if they could have a chat. That raised eyebrows: relations between the two have been ice-cold since last summer, when the New York Congressman lost his leadership job after taking part in a failed coup attempt against the Speaker. Despite the bad blood, Gingrich quietly pressed Paxon for his support when the Speaker runs for re-election in December...
...much and deserved surprise, heterodox Harvard students scored political victories last semester. Beth A. Stewart '00, a reported, ahem, conservative students run for the Undergraduate Council presidency often enough, but rarely do they win. And certainly not if they once worked for...Newt Gingrich...
Hard as it might be to top a former Gingrich employee as an object for moralizing and indignation on the part of others, Adam R. Kovacevich '99 deftly accomplished just that. Kovacevich founded The Grape Coalition, which campaigned for the return of California table grapes to the Harvard dining halls. Through a virtually single-handed effort, Kovacevich convinced 54 percent of Harvard students to support the return of table grapes despite an ad hominem and platitudinous misinformation campaign by several activist groups. As his success seemed more likely, Kovacevich became Harvard's equivalent of "The Great Satan" among activists...
Rossello said that the bill has many co-sponsors from both political parties, including Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, Democratic House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt...