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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chamber by making alarmist, often untrue, speeches from the podium about what the Democrats were doing to the House. Most of the time, there were few other members in the chamber; sometimes, there were none because everyone else had gone home for the night. These tactics so infuriated Speaker Tip O'Neill that he directed some untoward language at Gingrich from the podium. When Gingrich taunted the Speaker, most Republicans gave him a standing ovation. Michel remained seated and bore into Gingrich with a stare that could have cut a diamond...

Author: By Jay Kim, | Title: He Played Well in Peoria | 10/18/1993 | See Source »

Rolling Stone's Jeff S. Rabhan agreed. "Our goal is to chronicle students are on the tip of what's going onmusically, as well as politics, fashion andculture, which is what we're all about...

Author: By Elizabeth T. Bangs, | Title: Survey Ranks Cosmopolitan First Among Magazines Read on Campus | 10/15/1993 | See Source »

...might be about time to bust out the boots and pull out the parka, at least if you watch the Department of Public Works for your weather tip-offs...

Author: By Douglas M. Pravda, | Title: City Plowers Prepare for Snowy Streets | 10/13/1993 | See Source »

...soon as the project to build the third harbor tunnel was announced a few years ago, my father had predicted with chagrin that it would be named the "Thomas P. "Tip' O'Neill Tunnel." I liked it. The Tip O'Neill Tunnel. The Tip Tunnel. Tip's Tunnel to Town. It has a nice, absurd ring to it--unless, of course, you're a Republican. But in a city so unified on party lines, where Tip O'Neill seems to represent the personal interests of every man, woman and child, Republican governors don't have much choice...

Author: By Michael K. Mayo, | Title: A Tunnel to Boston's Past | 10/9/1993 | See Source »

...think the sheik was simply jealous because Shalabi was becoming too powerful," says a police investigator. Despite his long friendship with Shalabi, Abouhalima emerged as a prime murder suspect, but he was never charged, and the case remains unsolved. Seven days after Shalabi's murder, the FBI received a tip that Abouhalima was harboring explosives. Dressed as utility workers, federal agents searched his Brooklyn apartment but came up empty-handed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Secret Life of Mahmud the Red | 10/4/1993 | See Source »

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