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...special talent for avoiding relationships by moving quickly past groups of people and slamming the door behind him," says Patrick McIntosh, another of the suite mates. Kaczynski's room was a swamp; the others finally called in the housemaster, the legendary Master of Eliot House John Finley, who was aghast. "I swear it was one or two feet deep in trash," McIntosh says. "It had an odor to it. Underneath it all were what smelled like unused cartons of milk...
Meanwhile, the religious right tried, with only limited success, to make gambling a moral issue in the presidential race. On the stump, Pat Buchanan routinely declares that "gambling should return to the swamp whence it came." Ralph Reed, executive director of the Christian Coalition, showed up at a recent press conference to launch Tom Grey's Washington office. "Gambling is a cancer on the body politic, destroying families, stealing food from the mouths of children, turning wives into widows," he said, noting that in 1994 the Republican Party accepted more than $1 million in gaming-industry funds. Without specifically mentioning...
...itself the official voice of the Republican revolution, has an overheated editorial in its March 4 issue titled "The Buchanan Challenge." Buchananism, the editors declare, is a corrosive anti-institutional populism that threatens to undo the gains of 1994 and trap the G.O.P. in an anti-American, anti-capitalist swamp...
...receiver that I might hear German away from my classroom, I was already primed to listen. For a rural junior-high school kid, the radio was a Christmas-day magic box, and once I strung copper wire from the house to a huge white pine far out in the swamp, I grasped that box's reach...
...accounts the kind of popular, high-energy teacher who could get kids to come to a 7 a.m. class. He took his class canoeing in the Okefenokee Swamp or on field trips to Copper Hill, which he called "a famous industrial-pollution site in Chattanooga." Gingrich's effort to build such a large student following had a pragmatic side to it--a number of his students eventually became the ground troops in his campaigns for Congress...