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...potential rival would face the same predicament Gingrich finds himself in: the G.O.P. majority is whisker-thin, the President is far more popular than House Republicans, and the public has expressed a greater appetite for action than ideology. While a President can look useful just by holding summits and improving child car-seat safety, Gingrich's troops have much more to lose if nothing much gets passed this year; in just 19 months they have to face voters again...
...what hit it. By late 1995, after a heady decade of 15%-to-20% annual sales growth, Vintner's Reserve Chardonnay began to falter. Gallo's Turning Leaf, priced at $6, was cheaper than Kendall-Jackson's $10 bottle; but its packaging, from the flanged top, visible cork and thin, cigar-band neck wrapper down to its multicolored grape leaf, was strikingly similar...
...Single mothers who cannot find jobs feed their babies only once every other day. "Look at me," says Andre Miku, a retired mechanic whose children are hungry because he has sold the television set and the refrigerator and now there is nothing left to hawk. "I've grown so thin. It's not because I'm sick. There is simply no food. I used to be a very strong man. Now, I am the walking dead...
...THIN BLUE ONLINE...
Unlike federal campaign laws, however, which are fuzzy in their application and relatively toothless in their remedies, the Teamster election rules are quite clear: evidence of illegal contributions that might have been decisive in an election requires a rerun. Although Carey beat Hoffa by a razor-thin margin and the Arnold contributions may have financed a crucial last-minute mailing, labor experts suspect that the government, which spent as much as $30 million on the closely monitored election, may be reluctant to act on these charges. Which would leave the Teamsters, along with the American taxpayers, mired in business...