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...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...
...comedic but serious piece," Eszterhas says. "It ultimately makes the case that the President of the U.S. has to tell the truth." Indeed, the screenplay's climax has President Sam Parr confessing to the nation during a debate, "Yes, I diddled that cow!" Buoyed by his honesty, voters re-elect him in a landslide. "Maybe you're right," Eszterhas responds when asked if his script is just too vulgar ever to be made, "but I hope it has something...
...weeks of demonstrations as an excuse to tighten his personal grip on power. With protests over the collapse of fraudulent investment schemes convulsing Albania, Berisha dismissed the government and shook up the armed forces. Last week he declared a state of emergency and then had his rubber-stamp Parliament re-elect him President. Protesters reacted by switching their targets from the Ponzi schemes to the one-man rule of Berisha. Simmering economic differences between the poorer north and the south boiled over, and several southern towns exploded into insurrection--or anarchy...
...globe-trotting tycoons. "One thing we know," he explained anthropologically, "is that the culture out of which they come doesn't draw the same bright lines between politics, government and business that we do." He was describing the Asian-American donors whose largesse had done so much to help re-elect him in 1996 and embarrass him in 1997. But he might just as well have been describing his own roots in Arkansas' cash-and-carry politics, a "culture" that Clinton brought with him to Washington and that by last week had allowed him to startle a city that does...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: In a final push just days before the House votes on whether to re-elect Newt Gingrich as Speaker, the Republican political machine has jumped into action to support its once all-powerful, now flailing leader. As TIME Washington correspondent Karen Tumulty reports, "Virtually everyone of any stature was involved" in the campaign waged to save Newt's job. Even Gingrich himself got on the phone to House Republicans to personally plead for votes, says TIME's Jay Carney. On Friday, Republican National Committee Chairman Haley Barbour lept to Gingrich's side in support, in the form...