Word: toms
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...TOM'S NEW TEAM A proven champion signs up for a second season...
...head football coach at the University of Nebraska, Tom Osborne had an unusually personal view of the state of American youth. "I'd travel 30,000, 40,000, 50,000 miles a year all over the U.S. to find recruits," recalls Osborne, 61. "On average I visited 70 to 80 high schools and 50 to 60 homes each year. And what I saw were young people who were more and more troubled, carrying more and more emotional baggage; I even saw this increasingly with the young people joining the team...
...affair to the House of Representatives. Or Henry Hyde, the silver-haired chairman of the House committee where articles of impeachment originate. Or even Bob Livingston, who will soon replace Newt Gingrich as Speaker. Instead the author of Bill Clinton's most historic defeat, if it happens, will be Tom DeLay, a flinty former pest exterminator from Sugar Land, Texas, with a tense smile and a talent for making offers his fellow Republican lawmakers can't refuse...
...party's new leaders. One of them was Bob Livingston, who owed him a favor but who also did him one inadvertently by choosing not to step into the impeachment management. DeLay was only too happy to step in himself. "With Newt out and Livingston not sworn in yet, Tom is the de facto Speaker," says one of DeLay's deputies, Representative Mark Foley of Florida...
JAMES CARNEY, TIME's Capitol Hill correspondent, told Nation editor Priscilla Painton two weeks ago that Texas Congressman Tom DeLay would play a major role in the impeachment hearings. "In the absence of any other Republican leader, he's taking the reins," says Carney of the man he and fellow congressional correspondent John Dickerson profile this week. Carney's prescience has proved invaluable during his 10 years at TIME, which has included stints as a correspondent at the White House, in Moscow and in Miami. "He's wired into what's happening on the Hill," says Painton...