Word: sundays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...SUNDAY'S GAMES...
...quick check with Russert reveals that he offered Gingrich the entire hour of Meet the Press the Sunday before the election to discuss--you guessed it--Social Security, along with the space program, tax cuts, the budget and education. Gingrich declined. In truth, Gingrich had no gripe with the media over its Monica obsession, which allowed him to stoke it quietly behind the scenes. What truly concerned him was that the press's eye had wandered since Clinton's Aug. 17 confession. Too many shows were going off-topic, too many talking heads exclaiming over Mark McGwire and showing boredom...
...plausible candidate for Speaker resembles the kind of Republican leader that last week the voters signaled they liked. "We still need to prove that we can be conservative without being mean," said a G.O.P. moderate Senator. In Washington that means finding a handsome, telegenic lawmaker to go on the Sunday talk shows. Outside Washington, in noncongressional races, pragmatic "compassionate conservatives" who talk about inclusion, reach out to minorities, spend time on education, mind the environment and are tightfisted with their budgets coasted to easy victories in state after state: Tom Ridge in Pennsylvania, Tommy Thompson in Wisconsin, John Engler...
...thinking behind Netanyahu's latest move may have been revealed by Foreign Minister Ariel Sharon Sunday night: Sharon told right-wing settlers that a Palestinian state wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing for Israel, and then urged them to grab as much land as they can. "We'll expand the area," said Sharon. "Whatever is seized will be ours. Whatever isn't seized will end up in their hands." There's little the Israelis can realistically do to stop Arafat from declaring a state, but they'll do their best to restrict him to a Rorschach splatter hardly visible...
...SUNDAY...