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Meanwhile, council Treasurer Beth A. Stewart'00, who also is in her second year on the council, has plastered the campus with posters promising "Action, for a Change." Stewart, who interned this summer in the office of House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) and is a member of the conservative Salient, has vowed to move the council toward an agenda focused primarily on quality-of-life issues...
...Whenever Newt Gingrich needs a little extra motivation to keep off the 30 pounds he has lost since summer, all he has to do is look at Bill Paxon. Paxon is the lean, boyish, irrepressibly upbeat Congressman from upstate New York who might have become Speaker of the House last July if the attempt to overthrow Gingrich had succeeded. The coup failed, Paxon was forced to resign his leadership post and Gingrich has since reasserted a semblance of control, over both his weight and his troops...
...resemblence to the Tony- and Pulitzer-Prize winning Rent--produced by his main competetor for the money. After describing it with much disgust, John declares that "people writhing around...singing political slogans does not constitute opera." Other potentially humorous moments in the text also ring with underscored conservative sentiments. Newt Gingrich is described as a "battling visionary" comparable to Susan B. Anthony and Martin Luther King. Also, when pondering his Norwegian heritage, John thinks, "If we aren't the chosen people, then why did God make us so close to the standard...
...cannot even distribute its own budget equitably. Even in the wake of a new, more streamlined government, pork barrel politics still play a role in the Senate and House where recently Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) and other members of Congress pushed forward lucrative defense contracts that just happened to be located within their home state. Pork-barrel politics is not considered tarnishing here. But it is not that different from bribing local voters to re-elect certain representatives...
...potent force with an unlikely assortment of top-drawer allies, from Nader on the left to the Progress and Freedom Foundation's Jeff Eisenach on the free-market right. Senate majority leader Trent Lott is an old college buddy of Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale's. House Speaker Newt Gingrich cooled on Microsoft after a private dinner in 1995 during which he was rebuffed by the notoriously apolitical Gates, who nonetheless knew enough to call the G.O.P. a pawn of the religious right...