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...according to advance word, 1945 is a work of art compared with To Renew America, which was written in about two weeks. During the congressional Easter recess, ghostwriter Bill Tucker went to Gingrich's home in Marietta, Georgia, and extracted 70,000 words from the Speaker. "He's been saying the same thing since he was 15," says Tucker. "I just had to get him to make it shorter." The book repackages the sayings of Speaker Newt, lectures from his college course and riffs on the Contract with America...
Following through on a peripheral investigation, Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth Starr obtained a federal indictment against Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker, accusing him of submitting a false loan application and of conspiring to defraud the irs in connection with a complex cable-TV deal. Tucker denied any wrongdoing. In a separate development, the counsel obtained a guilty plea from Stephen Smith, a former Clinton gubernatorial aide, for conspiring to misapply loan funds. Neither the Tucker charges nor the Smith plea implicate either the President or Hillary Rodham Clinton...
Senator Robert Dole's broadside last week was hardly the first occasion on which Time Warner has found itself the target of a crusade against pop culture. Two weeks earlier, William Bennett, the former Secretary of Education, and C. DeLores Tucker, head of the National Political Congress of Black Women, brought their campaign against offensive rock lyrics to the annual Time Warner shareholders' meeting at New York's City Center. At one point in the meeting, Tucker rose from the audience and delivered a 17-minute attack on violent and misogynistic lyrics in songs recorded by Time Warner performers...
After the Time Warner shareholders' meeting last month, Tucker and Bennett aired their grievances directly in a testy meeting with company executives, among them Levin and Fuchs. It started badly: when company officials refused Tucker's request that they read aloud the lyrics of Big Man with a Gun, a song by the alternative-rock group Nine Inch Nails (sample: "Maybe I'll put a hole in your head/ You know, just for the f---- of it"), Tucker angrily walked out of the meeting for a time. Bennett's direct-as-a-bullet charges ("Are you folks morally disabled?") were...
...impressed with the lack of candor," said Bennett. "It was extremely pompous. Here were these guys in $4,000 suits making us feel like we were lucky to be getting the time of day." Company officials, on the other hand, assert that while Tucker was reasonable and focused on solutions, Bennett seemed intent on confrontation and publicity. "He came in with no information and no credentials to discuss any of this intelligently," says Fuchs. "I guess he thought he was the self-appointed marshal riding in on a white horse to be the arbiter of morals...