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...letter to Nicaraguan leader Daniel Ortega, Speaker Tip O'Neill described Gingrich's remarks as "the lowest thing that I've ever seen in my 32 years in Congress." Gingrich gained his reputation as a giant killer in 1987, when he brought the ethics charges against Speaker Jim Wright that led to Wright's resignation two years later. That positioned Gingrich for his successful 1989 run for minority whip, despite the fact that the House Republican leadership supported the more moderate Edward Madigan of Illinois...
...Civil War underground railroad, is cited six times in the guide, whereas Lincoln's Gettysburg Address is mentioned only once in passing. Students are expected to know about the 1848 Seneca Falls, New York, convention on women's rights (mentioned nine times) but not about the uncited Wright brothers or Thomas Alva Edison, whose inventions transformed the lives of millions. McCarthyism dominates the National Standards precis of the cold...
...that Foley had given up, the whispered criticisms among fickle Capitol Hill insiders grew louder. They have always regarded his speakership as something of an accident. But only five years ago, his gentle dignity and judicious temperament were hailed as just what the House needed after his predecessor, Jim Wright, resigned amid scandal. Now those qualities of Foley's are more often seen as weakness -- something his party cannot afford in the face of the strongest and most confrontational Republican force in decades. Sniped a Democratic House aide: "Many of us are hoping that his constituents will do what...
...author of both the cover story and the book has become TIME's newest contributor. He is Robert Wright, a senior editor of the New Republic and a writer who specializes in the human side of science. Wright designed The Moral Animal as an introduction to the new field of evolutionary psychology, the study of the genetic basis of human emotion and thought. "The everyday feelings that guide us through our lives are the products of evolution -- among them are guilt, compassion, envy, love, lust, our sense of justice," he says. If that sounds like a prescription for predetermination, even...
Says senior editor Charles Alexander, who will be working with Wright: "Bob is a rare writer -- a scholar who surveys materials intended for professionals and then makes the information accessible to the general reader, adding his own perceptive interpretations. He can cover a lot of different areas in a really vivid, readable style." We look forward to hearing more from Wright as he analyzes developments in an exciting era in science...