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...more mortified by Savage's outpourings than two prominent black Congressmen, House whip William H. Gray III of Pennsylvania and New York's Charles Rangel. Both appeared at the Savage rally to offer their endorsements, though they left before he began his denunciation of Jewish influence...
...admonished the crowd of activists at the conservative convention "to recognize that the '90s are not the '80s and certainly not the '70s." He warned against wasting energy on waging "holy war" over differences within the movement. As a backbencher, Gingrich used to ) enjoy making jihad. Today, as minority whip, he talks soberly of "opposition conservatism" being passe: "We must invent governing conservatism...
Harvard played a competitive match, but was hurt by several crucial calls--one of which cost them the first game. With the score knotted at 14 apiece, Merryman's illegal substitution turned the ball over to the Beavers, who proceeded to whip off the next two points for the win. But the Crimson was hurt more by sloppy defensive play and inaccurate serving than by anything else...
...newsmakers, the aspirant to a jumbo settlement and the journalist turned dispenser of social eclat. While ordinary footsore reporters waited outside a restaurant for crumbs of comment, Mizz Liz sailed in to console Ivana in the guise of boon companion, swapped expressions of abiding misery, then hurried out to whip intimate confidences into a souffle of salaciousness and scandal. Not that Ivana felt betrayed -- the whole friendship, like nearly every friendship between gossips and the gossiped-about, was based on mutual exploitation, an exchange of private trust before an audience of millions of strangers...
...next week, he will be one of an unprecedented seven Senators -- the so-called Keating Five plus two others -- facing investigation by the Senate ethics committee. If the past session of Congress was a nightmare for the House of Representatives, with the resignations of Speaker Jim Wright and Majority Whip Tony Coelho and the launching of twelve other ethics investigations, this session promises to be even worse for the Senate...