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...turns out, however, that Gingrich has had plenty else to keep him busy and engage the idea-a-minute side of him that so often exasperated his colleagues when he was running the House. The most unlikely reincarnation of the paunchy ex-lawmaker is as a zealous advocate of the virtues of a low-fat diet, exercise and stress management. Although he is occasionally seen at a downtown Washington health club, no one would call him buff--he is still carrying the legacy of too many cheeseburgers and Fritos from the Capitol basement takeout. But that has not prevented...
Ornish was the guest with whom Gingrich shared the conference room several weeks ago at the slightly right-of-center American Enterprise Institute, where he is a resident scholar. But while he is enamored with Ornish's approach--and devours studies of medical breakthroughs that show, among other things, that rabbits that are regularly stroked have less plaque in their arteries--he puts them in the context of policy. He argues, for example, that the government and private insurers could save untold billions on unnecessary heart surgery. And he doesn't stop there. "General Motors ought to be saying...
...addition to his gig studying and advocating health policy at A.E.I., Gingrich is a visiting fellow at Stanford University's conservative Hoover Institution, where he focuses on technology and society. And while neither place pays him, Gingrich is for the first time in his life earning big money for his thoughts, making speeches--35 or 40 so far this year--for which he charges $35,000 in Washington and Atlanta and $50,000 when he has to travel. "Every audience gets it," he bubbled in an interview last week. "In the country at large, there is an understanding that...
...speaking fees and the money raised for his Friends of Newt Gingrich political-action committee pay for other projects. Gingrich last month put up websites to promote his other endeavors: revamping Social Security to allow people to invest their own premiums; abolishing inheritance taxes; and shrinking government by cutting a combined load of federal, state and local taxes to no more than 25% of income...
...Bush or John McCain is up to it. ("Forbes, frankly, should have run for Governor of New Jersey.") But what either candidate must do is find the right four or five issues and convince voters they are relevant to their lives. Asked to name those four or five, Gingrich, typically, comes up with six. (They're mostly the ones listed on his website.) "There's no [stopping]...better ideas," he exulted. "I'm 56 years old. I probably have 20 years of talking about better ideas ahead...