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...NEWT GINGRICH Upstages his party's presidential candidates with appearance opposite Clinton...
These days washington seems to be filled with white men who make black people uneasy, like Newt the slasher, Bill the waffler and Jesse the crank -- Helms, that is, not Jackson. But the scariest of all the hobgoblins may well be a fellow African American, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. In the four years since George Bush chose him to fill the "black seat" vacated by Thurgood Marshall, Thomas has emerged as the high court's most aggressive advocate of rolling back the gains Marshall fought so hard for. The maddening irony is that Thomas owes his seat to precisely...
...just their routine Tuesday strategy session that brought House Republican leaders to the offices of Newt Gingrich last week. But from the way majority leader Dick Armey was talking, it could have been one of the economics classes he used to teach. His subject: Recent Signs of Recession in the U.S. Economy. One by one he ticked off the signals: payrolls falling, investments soft, inventories high. "The economic indicators suggest to me that I may be living with my worst fears,'' he told them. "If you have a recession in 1995 or '96, the voters are likely to connect that...
Aloysius Snuffleupagus is under siege. It's nothing personal against the beloved elephantine creature from Sesame Street, but as a symbol of quality children's television, Snuffy is trying to hold the fort while Rita Repulsa, Newt Gingrich, Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters from Beverly Hills, Armani-clad copywriters from Madison Avenue, Rupert Murdoch, professional wrestlers, professional lobbyists and Nickelodeon emcees armed with green gook storm the walls...
Visiting San Francisco to observe the 50th anniversary of the United Nations at its birthplace, President Clinton criticized its bureacracy and drift even as he defended the organization from House Speaker Newt Gingrich and others in Congress who want to slash U.S. funding and support of peacekeeping operations. "Over the years it has grown too bloated," Clinton said, addressing delegates from 185 nations in the War Memorial Opera House where President Truman addressed the original framers of the charter 50 years ago. "We must consider major structural changes. The United Nations simply does not need a separate agency with...