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...Cheney did just that with the House Republican Policy Committee, a moribund operation whose chief function when he reached it in 1980 after only one term in Congress was to crank out explanations to members of the G.O.P. position on various issues. Cheney turned it into an internal party forum, where a rising generation of G.O.P. bomb throwers led by Newt Gingrich could gain a hearing from the older leadership, who sometimes seemed to have made their peace with the idea that the Democratic majority in Congress was a permanent fact of life. Cheney used his stewardship of the committee...
...foundation once confined its mission to financially supporting the Kennedy Library and Museum, but it has slowly transformed into a forum for the discussion of current affairs, sponsoring a number of political education programs...
...dumb, you've been had.) Gore trails by 37 points in Texas, and he sure wasn't there figuring to snag the state's electoral jackpot. The message was for the other 49 - look at this mess! Look at these suckers! "The presidency," he said at an insta-forum in the land of the Alamo, "is not a popularity contest...
Mississippi trial lawyer Dickie Scruggs walked into a Connecticut Medical Society forum with the smile and swagger of a man who knows he's the main attraction. Not long ago, an aggressive plaintiffs' lawyer entering a roomful of doctors could have used a bodyguard. That's how much the medical profession hated the "ambulance chasers" who were driving up their malpractice premiums. On this visit, however, Scruggs was introduced so gushingly that even he was embarrassed. "You forgot to mention," he chided the society's head, "that I rested on the seventh...
...promoting European military cooperation and in defending European economic interests. France's strategy of using Europe to enhance its own clout--and counterbalance America's overwhelming power--demands the kind of changes that Jospin's government is trying to make, even as it offers the proud French a new forum in which to practice their tenacious belief in France's own special destiny. Plus ca change, one might say, plus c'est la meme chose...