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...With his zeal for doing the unpopular, Kasich takes much of the political heat off Gingrich. At the same time, however, he risks finding himself the fall guy if things go badly. He conceded as much at a hearing this month when he publicly commiserated with Rivlin, who lost internal battles at the White House over whether the Administration should opt for further deficit reduction. ``I hope you'll be the only one in this city that will lose this fight this year,'' Kasich told Rivlin. ``But you know what? I've got a feeling that there will be some...
...Deng fades from the scene, a fierce debate is beginning, questioning the correctness of his reforms and pondering what steps should come next. The discussion is going on mostly in private because the party's political control and the zeal of the censors are still strong. Chinese intellectuals are extremely cautious about putting their views forward publicly...
...fully one third of his space for an opinionated attack on the consumers of 'porn,' as he chose to term it. Rather than the psychotic perverts he portrays, I suspect most downloaders of Internet pornography are rather like a very mild-mannered friend of mine who recently discussed with zeal the obscene screen-saver she had compiled as a joke for her roommate. I can think of at least seven people I know well, four women and three men, whom I know to have viewed computer pornography for their own entertainment and amusement. They are not, as the article would...
Since many Republicans oppose hiking the minimum with near religious zeal (``I'll fight it with every fiber of my being,'' says House majority leader Dick Armey), the President's plan seems dead--which may explain why some Clinton aides say the proposal won't be actively pushed...
...price for the book, which was sold by Gingrich's agent in a telephone auction on Dec. 20, rose breathtakingly fast, keeping it out of their reach. "There was no time to do anything," said Stephen Rubin, president of Doubleday. However, publishing executives attribute the high price to HarperCollins' zeal, rather than any rigging of the auction process...