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...just a shy grandfather of four. By 8:15 a.m., he had ridden a privately funded, rocket-powered glider 328,491 ft. into the morning sky, becoming the first person ever to fly a civilian craft into space. By the end of the week, he was a motivational speaker at a conference for TV marketing executives--a last-minute substitute for hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons...
Bell's complaint breaks an informal seven-year truce between parties on members of Congress filing such actions against one another, an agreement dating back to the nasty battle that led to the unseating of House Speaker Newt Gingrich. Now the gloves may come off. One DeLay ally has threatened to file retaliatory complaints against Democrats, though DeLay told reporters, "I do not encourage anyone to file complaints." Democratic leaders, who claim they had no role in Bell's action, also were eager to keep the conflict contained. Meanwhile, G.O.P. Representative Ray LaHood of Illinois says he will...
...Murat Zyazikov, who toed the Kremlin hard line. Ingush and Chechens suspected of rebel sympathies started to disappear. The lightning strikes were the response. Until now, the assumption was that the insurgents were Chechens. Aliyev and other locals, though, assert that many were local Ingush. Says former Russian Parliament Speaker Ruslan Khasbulatov: "The war in Ingushetia, hitherto hidden from the public eye, has finally surfaced...
...pushed the Democratic Party toward the center--inspired partly by Reagan's success in pushing the G.O.P. to the right. "Before Reagan, if you wanted to get a big idea through Congress, you worked through the leadership. Reagan couldn't do that. The most important leader in Congress, House Speaker Tip O'Neill, was his enemy. So he figured out he had to go to the people. To get a big idea through Congress now, you go outside. Reagan understood that...
...tried to join the Communist Party but was rejected on the grounds that he would be more valuable as a fellow traveler (a rumor Reagan blithely denied to Morris in 1987). By the early '50s, though, Reagan had turned firmly and forever to the right. His confidence as a speaker and SAG boss nudged him into pitchman and executive roles--first as the host of TV's General Electric Theatre and Death Valley Days, then as Governor and President...