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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...while Bob considered skipping his son's inauguration as Speaker; Why go, when he could watch it on TV? When he did turn up for Newt's triumphal speech, the crowd in the House chamber rose again and again to its feet--while Bob stayed clamped in his seat, chin in hand. "After the third standing ovation," Bob Gingrich said later, "it gets a little...
...rebellion very nearly brought him down. In 1990 Gingrich held on to his seat by fewer than 1,000 votes out of 156,000 cast, after his opponent charged that he was more interested in playing God than in seeing to the care and feeding of his constituents. That brush with political death, it turns out, has produced an even more harrowing one. Some of the charges that are now ruining his holiday stem from that tight race. GOPAC was permitted by law to help only candidates for state and local offices, but documents filed by the Federal Election Commission...
...history repeats itself, the flag-amendment issue will have little resonance in the minds of voters come November. After the amendment's last run through Congress in May 1990, only five months before the election, Democrats gained seats in both houses, and not one Democrat lost a Senate seat While the electorate has come down repeatedly and overwhelmingly on the wrong side of the issue, at least it has had the sense not to vote for candidates on the basis of their support for the flag-burning amendment alone...
...contend with dozens of rude students in his Literature and Arts A class, the Myth of America. Many of them sleep or chat with their friends during his lectures, or rustle their papers and books loudly as they leave fifteen minutes early. Santa will wire every seat in Science Center B to an eject switch at the podium. Then Professor Bercovitch can blast those who do not wish to pay attention clear out to Loker Commons...
Jesse Jackson Jr., the 30-year-old son of the civil rights activist, will bring his famous name to Washington after trouncing Republican Thomas Somer to capture the congressional seat vacated by Rep. Mel Reynolds, who resigned after being convicted of sexual misconduct. "Although it is clear that he won the post largely because of his famous name, and he isn't as well credentialed as Reynolds who was a Rhodes Scholar, he can still really help a district that is in horrible condition," says Chicago bureau chief James Graff. "The fact that his name is Jesse Jackson will enable...