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...high school students are given a survey before the congressional simulation to determine their political leanings. Each student is then assigned a real politician in Washington to emulate, ranging from liberal Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 (D-Mass.) to conservative Rep. Newt Gingrich...
...Harvard truly was committed to diversity, it would find room at the Crimson Inn for black conservative professors in order to provide a counterpoint to the Marxist nonsense preached by Cornel West and his acolytes. Instead, Harvard, along with Newt Gingrich, has bought into the fallacy that Jesse Jackson and his elk represent black America...
...cards when it comes to a negotiation." Raines and Bowles wanted to show more flexibility early, on the theory that it might help soften up the opposition. A few days after the election Raines even went so far as to approach G.O.P. strategist Ken Duberstein and House Speaker Newt Gingrich with the idea of writing a budget together--a prospect the Republicans found laughable after fighting a bruising campaign over that very issue. "I don't think it was being naive," Raines contends. "I think it was setting a tone...
KAREN TUMULTY knew when she was named our White House correspondent that she was in for a big change. On Capitol Hill, where she has covered Congress for TIME for the past two years, reporters have access aplenty. "You run into Bob Dole and Newt Gingrich in the halls," she says. The White House, by contrast, is tightly controlled. So to report this week's profile of Franklin Raines, the man behind Clinton's new budget, Tumulty had to find out what goes on inside by going outside--getting to Raines through the people who knew him before he went...
During the State of the Union speech this week, television viewers will see a familiar Capitol Hill tableau: a sober-faced Newt Gingrich sitting behind Bill Clinton. But the more intriguing and unfamiliar pairing will be up in the balcony, where Gingrich's wife Marianne will be sitting with country star Travis Tritt, Joan Shalikashvili, wife of the general, and...Jesse Jackson. Last week Newt extended an invitation to his ideological opposite to sit in the Gingrich family box in the Speaker's gallery, and it was accepted. The unlikely twosome have been communing since Gingrich's opening-day speech...