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...almost everything right. As he foretold, the public hated the Republican blackmail strategy. But even more ominous, he saw that his coalition was beginning to splinter. On Wednesday morning he had taken a secret ballot of his members on whether to reopen the government. By 111 to 54 they had voted no. But those 54 votes told Gingrich that he was losing control of the House and would have to give up his best weapon in the budget war. And so, with eyes downcast and voice resolute, he recalled his own childhood as an Army brat, remembering what...
...been made since his lifetime, or will happen again in ours. But, on Dec. 16, the show had to close. Last week the National Gallery's director, Earl ("Rusty") Powell III, managed to scrape together the necessary $12,000 or so a day from private museum funds to reopen the Vermeer galleries--though none of the rest of the museum--for just a week, until this Wednesday. Now you see it, now you don't, then you do. But next week, who knows...
ISRAEL AND SYRIA REOPEN TALKS...
RECOVERING. THOMAS KEAN, 60, former G.O.P. Governor of New Jersey; from a balloon angioplasty to reopen a blocked artery; in Morristown, New Jersey. After Kean complained of chest pains, doctors sped the popular two termer into the operating room after determining he was dangerously close to a heart attack...
...lightning were to strike." --Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter, describing the circumstances under which he would reopen his stalled campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. Specter, a moderate, failed to rise above two percent in public opinion polls...