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Marianne remained a holdout; by Monday she and her husband could barely discuss the subject. That's when the Speaker asked Washington wise man Ken Duberstein, who had been urging Gingrich to pay the fine for weeks, to lend a hand. Duberstein gently told a sometimes tearful Marianne that her husband would be crushed politically if he didn't pay the debt himself, now or on installment. He said Dole's generous offer gave the Speaker a long time to make the payment--and would buy Gingrich time to consolidate his shaky position in the House. "There...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: In a move that probably means the end of any GOP hopes for a balanced budget amendment this year, Senator Robert Torricelli, the last Senate holdout on the issue, said he will not support the measure. With 11 Democrats already on their side, Republicans had been counting on the New Jersey Democrat to provide the deciding 67th yes vote. Torricelli reportedly told a Democratic colleague he would not back the measure after he failed on a 63-37 vote Wednesday to win changes to the language of the proposed amendment. He wanted to make it easier...
Alas, that socialist holdout otherwise known as the Harvard Coop will not offer any discount to its student "members" for the third consecutive year. I would take the opportunity to rail against this decision by Coop President Jeremiah P. Murphy Jr. '73, but such invective would prove futile. There is no hope that the Coop can or will turn a profit. The store's business "strategy" is, of course, the fault of its managers. But any such entrenched bureaucrats with zero financial incentive to improve performance would likely do the same thing that the Coop does: maintain...
...head the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (D.S.C.C.), it was a downright curious choice. The job, which is to raise money for Democratic senatorial candidates, is usually reserved for a partisan loyalist. Kerrey, the only Medal of Honor winner in the Senate, was resolutely bipartisan and a conspicuous Democratic holdout on the President's 1993 budget. Daschle confesses, "I didn't know what to expect." Kerrey himself was divided (nothing unusual there): he was Bob Kerrey, Nebraska Maverick, not Bob Kerrey, Party Guy. But the situation was grim. The Republicans already had a 53-47 advantage, with momentum on their side...
...most cynical sitcom clan seemed to have been injected with happy juice. "Man, it's so clean!" marveled Dan, on first seeing the home of Space Mountain and giant Goofy impersonators. "I want to be worthy of living here!" exclaimed Roseanne's sister Jackie. Daughter Darlene was a sour holdout at first, but even she was won over--by a big hug from Winnie the Pooh...