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When Hastert, 58, first became Speaker of the House, anonymity was his mandate. Following Newt Gingrich's 1998 self-immolation and Bob Livingston's scandal-plagued, 32-day stay as Speaker-designate, congressional Republicans needed a Speaker with an aversion to open microphones and a private life cleaner than soap. They wanted the Anti-Newt, and Hastert--a beefy, obscure, seven-term Congressman from Illinois--was their knight in a husky gray suit. He quickly put his stamp on the office by delivering part of his acceptance speech from the floor of the House. "My legislative home is here...
...weird dispensation of the gods of media, poured forth a procession of such operas - not the lowest notes always, but, in any case, huge performances, one after another, starting with the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill hearings and rolling on through tragedies like Oklahoma City and Colombine, geopolitical soap operas like Elian Gonzalez, through the surpassingly surreal business that began with Monica Lewinsky's blue dress (talk about the lowest note) and culminated in the impeachment of a president...
...weird dispensation of the gods of media, poured forth a procession of such operas - not the lowest notes always, but, in any case, huge performances, one after another, starting with the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill hearings and rolling on through tragedies like Oklahoma City and Colombine, geopolitical soap operas like Elian Gonzalez, through the surpassingly surreal business that began with Monica Lewinsky's blue dress (talk about the lowest note) and culminated in the impeachment of a president...
...make two costly withdrawals. It was, in the words of CBS and CNN election consultant Warren Mitofsky, "embarrassing as hell." Yet it also underscored TV's tremendous power, as the networks' blunders led to Al Gore's concession takeback. And as that wild night set up an acrimonious Florida soap opera played out for the cameras, it revealed the media's dual, contradictory roles: national laughingstock and de facto fourth branch of government...
...show is around here? It's the replay of the Monday night council meetings Tuesday nights on local cable." The mayor is willing to bet his best rod and reel that few Westlanders tuned in to the third presidential debate last week. They were watching their city council soap opera...