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...stripes say they're tired of the warfare. But dissatisfaction with Newt remains high, and a survivalist strategy won't satisfy his ego for long. Which is why Gingrich himself may be searching for a way to quit. He has a cover. According to several advisers, America's most unpopular politician is thinking about stepping down as Speaker--to run for President...
...amazing what an image makeover--plus a very unpopular opponent--can do for a politician's fortunes. At age 63, Cardenas was back in the firmament last week as he and his Party of the Democratic Revolution (P.R.D.) wrested the Mexico City mayor's office from the P.R.I. by a vote of 47% to 26%, with the right-wing National Action Party polling 16%. Now Cardenas is once more being held up as the man who, in the presidential vote of 2000, can end the P.R.I.'s reign as the world's longest-ruling political party...
...their holes can snap the legs of livestock like dry twigs and their fur plays host to fleas that sometimes carry the plague. (Prairie dogs have infected 24 people in the U.S. in the past 27 years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.) They are so unpopular that for decades the Federal Government has conducted poisoning campaigns to eradicate them from rangeland. Several rural communities even hold contests for "sport shooters," who find the animals stimulating targets because varmint-hunting cartridges disintegrate on impact, causing the dogs to explode into "red mist," a cloud of blood...
...popular two-term Governor, George Voinovich, who must now balance the grievances of parents in hard-pressed rural and urban districts with the sense of entitlement of those living in more affluent suburbs. In sparsely populated Vinton County, where wages are low and property taxes unpopular (the district spends only $4,200 per pupil each year), the ruling took the form of deliverance. "This is our chance to get out," said superintendent John Simmons. But not at our expense, reply residents of manicured places like Indian Hill, where per-pupil spending nears $8,000 a year and voters have only...
...support beyond her family. Kelly Jacobs, head of a parents' group, helped persuade the civil rights division of the U.S. Department of Education to investigate. Jacobs says Alison should be held up as a model for challenging accepted practice and sparking debate, no matter how sticky the issue or unpopular the cause. Instead she is bad news in a town that got along fine without her. School officials argue that race relations are good, that all students are fairly represented and that other schools use similar systems. As one teacher put it in a TV interview, "It's just always...