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Newt's free ride in the world of big think ends this week. The Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) is issuing its "Progressive Alternative," a more honest and rigorous attempt to address the nation's problems than Gingrich's vacuous bromides...
Earlier in the season, Harvard hosted William and Mary. Without much trouble, the talented Crimson team squelched its opponent, leaving the women of William and Mary with a long ride home to Virginia...
...chairman of the prestigious committee, Helms will be in a position to make his strongly conservative -- and sometimes highly quixotic -- foreign policy views matter. Two weeks ago, he sent Clinton a letter threatening to give the Administration's foreign policy a rough ride for the next two years unless the President deferred the vote on the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade to the new session of Congress. A Senate aide likened the tactic to "kidnapping a child and sending a ransom note even though you plan to kill the kid anyway...
...relations with the U.N.; to do away with the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency; and to investigate whether foreign aid could be replaced by the Overseas Private Investment Corp., a federal agency that helps U.S. capitalists make investments in developing nations. Helms can also be counted on to ride several other hobbyhorses: his hatred for all communist regimes, including China and Cuba; his passion to see Americans compensated by governments that expropriated their property; his conviction that the Mideast peace process has cost Americans too much...
...released the plan today at the 10th anniversary of the group, which Clinton once led. It's a wise political and practical move by the Democrats to define themselves as clearly different from the Gingrich crowd, according to TIME political writer Michael Kramer. "Newt's free ride in the world of big think ends this week, " Kramer writes in this week's issue of TIME. But will the Dem's embattled big chief sign on? Writes Kramer: "Few expect him to summon the courage to tackle entitlements seriously...