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...Robert Livingston of Louisiana also has a black belt in Taekwondo and an instinct for the kill. If he's in a better position than his Republican competitors to nab the speakership, it's because Gingrich himself gave him a head start. In February the 55-year-old Livingston told colleagues that should Gingrich run for President in 2000, he wanted to take over. Four years earlier, Gingrich had handpicked Livingston--at the time the fifth-ranking Republican on the Appropriations Committee--to become the panel's chairman. Livingston ultimately used this perch of patronage to knife his benefactor: wielding...
Georgia had Lester Maddox and Louisiana had Earl Long, and now Minnesota has gone and got an interesting Governor of our own: a pro wrestler with a shaved head and a bad-boy swagger whose voice is hoarse from bellowing at opponents and threatening to rip their arms from their sockets. He was the protest candidate, a chance to throw toilet paper in the trees and piss off Dad, nobody dreaming he would actually be elected. But in a three-way race the ball takes funny bounces, and that is how Minnesota...
...increased 185%, to $1.2 billion, and dividends rose 82%, to $295 million--the company has collected more than $150 million in corporate welfare from federal and state governments. There have been federal export subsidies; Eximbank projects in China, India and Venezuela; and research contracts with the Department of Energy. Louisiana has excused the company from paying nearly $2 million annually in real estate taxes. Kansas came up with a package of incentives valued between $11 million and $14 million to persuade Allied to erect a headquarters building for one of its subsidiaries in Olathe. The Indiana city of Franklin lopped...
...members of Congress and their staffs from accepting gifts of any value -- even a cup of coffee -- from lobbyists, journalists and contributors. Another reform: Gingrich placed six-year term limits on all committee chairmen. But in the days since Newt announced his resignation, his presumptive heir, Bob Livingston of Louisiana, has been peppered with furtive requests from fellow Republicans who want to turn back the reform clock. The total gift ban, they argue, is humiliating because it presumes lawmakers can be bought for a pittance. And some current committee chairmen, faced with losing power in just two years, are suddenly...
...Beat Auburn 24-21 12. Virginia 7-1 Beat Wake Forest 38-17 13. Notre Dame 6-1 Beat Baylor 27-3 14. Nebraska 7-2 Lost to No. 20 Texas 20-14 15t. Syracuse 5-2 Beat Pitt 45-28 15t. Tulane 7-0 Beat S.W. Louisiana 72-20 15t. Virginia Tech 7-1 Beat West Virginia 27-13 18. Missouri 6-2 Beat Texas Tech 28-26 19. Georgia 6-2 Idle 20. Texas 6-2 Beat No. 14 Nebraska 20-14 21. Oregon 6-2 Lost to No. 10 Arizona 38-3 22. Michigan 6-2 Beat...