Word: joe
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Last year, Joe Walsh took over as coach, and the team went...
...Hampshire primary of 1992. That amounts to over five years of non-stop scandal. Since scandals have become a norm, rather than a deviation, I would venture to say that the only thing that would worry the public would be the sudden disappearance of scandals. The average Joe figures that "those bastards in Washington are gonna be up to something rotten," so he may as well know what it is. If all of a sudden he stopped hearing about the corruption, he would be convinced that the government was hiding something, in which case it would be time to sound...
Whenever Florida Republican Joe Scarborough encountered House Speaker Newt Gingrich this winter, he found himself thinking of Richard Nixon as rendered by Oliver Stone. In one scene a vehement Pat Nixon goes over to Dick and grabs him by the lapels. "Dick, you want them to love you, but they never will," she says. The conservative sophomore had wanted to tell this story to Newt for months, to convince him that efforts to make friends with moderates and liberals both in Congress and outside were wrongheaded and ill-fated. Finally Scarborough couldn't help himself: every act of Congress seemed...
Which explains the Speaker's conspicuous conversion from flamethrower to peacemaker, part of a five-month plan that his closest and most controversial adviser, Joe Gaylord, prepared for him in January. Since then Gingrich has courted moderates, Democrats and even the White House. At the State of the Union Address, he made nice to Jesse Jackson. Last month he met with actor Alec Baldwin and seemed to support continued funding for the National Endowment for the Arts, despite the fact that House Republicans resolved in 1995 that the NEA would be put to sleep after this year. And two weeks...
McVeigh's defense team has been understandably chagrined by the recent spate of negative stories. Says his lead lawyer, Stephen Jones: "I feel like I've been in the ring with Joe Louis. But I'm still on my feet. It's been a character-building experience." Nevertheless, sources say, members of his team feel the media disclosures have made it extremely difficult, if not impossible, for McVeigh to get an acquittal. Still, Jones will press on. This week he will raise questions about a wider conspiracy by asking the government to hand over all evidence pertaining to Carol Howe...