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...created in the House would actually work the way he planned. "You can't, in a free society, postpone permanently major arguments," he says, " and the job of leadership is to manage it." That night he erased decades of habit in the House: the habits that members are more loyal to their supporters than to their Speaker, that the real work of Congress amounted to the horse trading of small favors in the committee room, that freshmen in Congress are about as powerful as the doorkeepers, that the House is where bold schemes come...
...bright, tricolor billboards all across Moscow, Chernomyrdin earnestly appeals to voters to cast their ballots for Our Home Is Russia, the political movement he founded last April in a bid to create a strong centrist party loyal to the Kremlin. IF YOUR HOME IS DEAR TO YOU, the slogan reads...
...after they moved from St. Louis to Phoenix? How else do you explain Al Davis moving his Raiders back to Oakland after he cost the N.F.L. $50 million in legal fees and damages by moving them to Los Angeles? How else do you explain Art Modell betraying the most loyal fans in pro football by taking his Browns from Cleveland to Baltimore? How else do you explain the blood on the hands of the Baltimoreans who are giving Modell a $200 million stadium in order to replace the Colts, who were spirited away 11 years ago in moving vans bound...
...Harvard has very loyal alumni who are devoted to the school," said the staff member. "The College produces leaders in business and government who are interested in perpetuating the kind of education they received here...
This was not the first time King had been lucky with a New York City jury. In the 1985 tax-evasion case, the promoter got off scot-free while one of his loyal female employees took the fall. According to Jack Newfield's biography Only in America: The Life and Crimes of Don King, King flew most of those jurors to London for the Tim Witherspoon--Frank Bruno heavyweight title bout eight months after the trial and put them up in a luxury hotel, burying the expenses as part of the fight's promotion...