ZEALOUS GOP NEOPHYTE SCORNS GINGRICH’S RETRENCHMENT
I asked Rep. Linda Smith if she ever used the home phone number given her by an admiring Ross Perot. "He just called me a few minutes ago," the Republican...
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TV-WARY ELIE WIESEL HAS LITTLE USE FOR WASHINGTON, WALESA
His life has been spent confronting humanity's darker hours. His manner is so dour, one imagines a monk closeted in a dank and candle-lit corner, putting pen to parchment, groping...
`CROSSFIRE’ CO-STAR SEEKS NEXT JOURNALISTIC TEST ON INTERNET
The fact that most of those in-the-media-know here think Michael Kinsley is wrong suggests that maybe, just maybe, he's right. Kinsley, 44, a journalistic wunderkind-turned-middle-aged provocateur, is making a seemingly...
CONGRESS ELIMINATES A DEPARTMENT THAT ACTUALLY WORKED
The Republicans have talked big about slashing your federal government. You know, get rid of the Commerce Department, the Education Department and the Energy Department. Blah, blah, blah. And what's...
BRITISH JOURNALIST SEES U.S. ROLE IN BALKANS RIFE WITH POLITICS
Misha Glenny, a formidable British journalist, was in an America Online chat room the other evening and asked how many folks thought U.S. troops should go to Bosnia. "There was...
JOURNALIST TURNED LOBBYIST FALLS VICTIM TO D.C. MONEY GAME
One thing was patently obvious to Mark Helmke in voter surveys done for the Republican presidential campaign of Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana. "They dislike almost everything about politics and...
WALKING ON EGGSHELLS: HOW THE PRESS COVERED FARRAKHAN
The sun was setting and the question was inevitable as I surveyed the sea of black Americans listening to Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. Would he break Fidel Castro's...
IN A CONSERVATIVE ERA, HARLEM LIBERAL FIGHTS THE GOOD FIGHT
Midnight approached, with most of the town long tucked in, when the raspy New York voice sounded sharply across the vast congressional hearing room. "We ain't gettin' a haircut," Rep....
FORMER CHICAGO CLERGYMAN PURSUES A NATIONAL ADDICTION
On the morning Pope John Paul II was winging his way to the U.S., a notable member of his flock was lined up at a downtown Budget-Rent-A-Car office. "Are you...
BUCKLEY: OLD LION OF CONSERVATISM STILL HAS SOME ROAR LEFT
"The whole `Gingrich Revolution,' " he said with trademark pause and slight craning of the neck, "is improperly called a revolution. It's a retrenchment." "It's a slowdown, a temporizing," said...