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...before Sept. 11. Did President Bill Clinton take responsibility - let alone apologize for Oklahoma City? No. In fact, he laid the dead at the feet of "loud and angry voices in America today," joining a chorus of liberals in blaming the bombing on the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich for allegedly encouraging militias...
FEMALES SCORNED When males are in short supply, females can become fierce competitors. Female house sparrows and great reed warblers, whose males often take two mates, may try to smash a rival's eggs. Unattached smooth newt females will steal a male's sperm packet just as he deposits it for his mate. Midwife toads are even more proactive: jealous females will tear copulating couples asunder...
...change to meet the new situation," explained Joe Trippi, Dean's campaign manager. "It's been a long time since Democrats were totally shut out of the government. We don't know how to be a true opposition party--to do the sort of guerrilla warfare that Newt Gingrich...
G.O.P. congressional leaders, who still consider Newt politically radioactive, will say little publicly about his role in the Medicare bill. Gingrich too is circumspect, describing himself only as "a change agent. If they want my ideas, I'm happy to show up and give them." Several of the ideas he has pushed, it seems, wound up in the Medicare bill, such as grants for electronic prescription programs to cut down on medical errors and payments for heart-disease and diabetes screenings. Three days before the House vote, G.O.P. leaders brought in Gingrich for a private session to help win over...
...with no apparent recollection that this was the nickname of the Nazi general Erwin Rommel, who overran Arab North Africa.) But when language is being crafted for American consumption, Bush has become the mouthpiece for an ingenious conservative language engineering operation, dating back at least to 1990, when Newt Gingrich issued the famous memo, “Language: A Key Mechanism of Control...