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...Today, I come to you with a heart filled with love and peace now that the olive branch has adorned the peace of the brave." --Tonight's ARCO Forum Speaker Yasser Arafat, addressing a special session of the United Nations General Assembly on Sunday...
Author Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, was the keynote speaker at the dedication ceremony, which also featured remarks from Massachusetts Governor William F. Weld '66, Boston Mayor Thomas A. Menino and an ecumenical collection of local religious leaders...
Carver's time on the podium was bracketed by apostles of the extreme. The speaker who preceded him announced that federal environmental laws and the international biodiversity treaty would force mass relocations in the Midwest--80% of Wisconsin's population would have to move. The speaker after Carver proudly disclosed that he was the cartoonist whose leaflet, stacked at the auditorium entrance, reprised a conspiracy theory about the Rockefellers' and Rothschilds' controlling the world. Carver left the room to avoid hearing his remarks...
Gingrich is clashing with two different Bob Doles. The Speaker can't control Dole the campaigner, but he needs to have influence over Dole the Senator in order to push through the extensive collection of spending cuts and tax reductions promised in the Contract with America. So last week the Speaker took control of the legislative stream, persuading Dole to create a task force of House and Senate leaders designed in part to ensure that the Senate majority leader and other moderate Senate Republicans would not unilaterally trade away elements of Gingrich's revolution in the final days of congressional...
Gingrich's message to Dole is simple: Follow me, or get out of the way. In leaking to allies his latest presidential ambitions, the Speaker sought to make it appear that what worries him is a presidential run by Colin Powell, since the general is an avowed moderate who might threaten the Speaker's agenda. Of Powell's candidacy, Gingrich spokesman Tony Blankley says, "As long as the Speaker is reasonably assured that whoever the standard bearer is going to be is willing and able to carry the message of the revolution through the campaign, then he is very happy...