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...been Speaker of the House, a professor and a best-selling author. His World War II novel, Days of Infamy, hits bookstores on April 29. Newt Gingrich will now take your questions...
...have criticized the partisanship of Washington, but your time as Speaker of the House was known for extreme division. How do you explain this? -Dan Kane, Durham, N.H.I helped pass NAFTA on behalf of President Bill Clinton. And in 1996 [when] we passed welfare reform, about half the Democrats in the House voted with us. I don't think either party can force a narrowly partisan set of solutions...
...investor only needs one or two good stocks a decade to be successful. He gave the example of a man who invested $1000 a year in two local companies, Friendly’s and Tampax, and ended up making $20 million. Students said Lynch was a conversational and funny speaker, admiring his use of personal anecdotes and specific examples to illustrate his points. “I read his book and liked it, and I thought it was a concise and entertaining summary of it,” said Alfredo O. Ramirez...
...that same afternoon—amidst the gales and intermittent downpour—introductory speaker and University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann ’71, and the new Harvard president herself, seemed careful, however, to distance the incipient Faust era from the prejudices of the Puritan past...
...ties, and a belief that Obama would move to end Washington's 30-year Cold War with Tehran - or at least reduce the prospect of a U.S. military attack on the Islamic Republic. "I think people want him to win," Shi'ite cleric Mehdi Karroubi, the reformist former parliament speaker defeated by Ahmadinejad in Iran's 2005 presidential contest, told TIME...