Word: speaker
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...showing off their women and children, the Democrats sought to one-up the Republicans at every opportunity. In San Diego the Republicans had more than 40 women speakers. By Wednesday evening the Democrats had almost 50. The Democrats' yuppieish keynote speaker, Evan Bayh, trumped yuppieish Republican keynoter Susan Molinari's newborn with his twins. Advantage, Chicago...
...Horatius at the bridge, our lonely defender against the Newtite hordes. Or (less partisan version): Americans have discovered that they like gridlock, as a protection against the excesses of both parties. They have not turned against the Republican vision of smaller government--they just don't trust Speaker Gingrich to control himself...
...news, Christopher Darden is taking his rhetorical skills to series TV. O.J.'s prosecutor will play a preacher in an episode of CBS's inspirational series Touched by an Angel, one of Darden's favorite shows. That should take the sting out of being bumped as a speaker at the G.O.P. convention...
DIED. RICHARD UPTON, 81, ex-speaker of the New Hampshire house of representatives, who engineered the first-in-the-nation presidential primary; in Portsmouth, New Hampshire...
...Haley Barbour hovered near To whisper in each speaker's ear, "The polls, my friend, will surely rise, If we can just de-Houstonize...