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...hundred paranoias bloomed. Or anyway, moods hardened into intransigence: Here I stand. The Gingrich freshmen vowed no compromise; liberals wrote them down as fascists. The Million Man March, otherwise admirable, provided the platform for minister Louis Farrakhan's elaborate numerological fantasies, the very arithmetic of the universe clicking in conspiracy. Whitewater and Vincent Foster's death continued to emit a low-intensity radioactive glow (a marvelously double-jointed paranoid bumper sticker said IF VINCE FOSTER HAD OWNED A GUN, HE WOULD BE ALIVE TODAY). And, of course, an elaborate police conspiracy framed O.J. Simpson for a double murder...
...emissaries. Some were looking to snag writers and actors for the mainstream entertainment maw. Others came to join the collegial ferment. Says Janet Blake, a veep at Walt Disney Television: "Where else can you have a lively discussion with Jimmy Breslin"--who presented a savagely witty skit about Newt Gingrich haranguing his first wife in her hospital bed--"and two minutes later be talking to Tony Kushner? Only in Louisville...
...where it was intended, building roads and upgrading airports. But the supposedly untapped funds are actually an accounting figment. Using them would increase the deficit or force greater cuts in other programs. Budget Committee chairman John Kasich and Appropriations chairman Bob Livingston are vehemently opposed. Attempts by Newt Gingrich to reconcile them and Shuster have come to naught. Meanwhile, Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan broke with his custom of staying neutral to advise against passage...
...they are not in the U.S. illegally. That, at least, is the intent of a proposed amendment to the immigration-reform bill that would give states the right to turn away undocumented children from public schools. The measure easily passed the House of Representatives last week after Speaker Newt Gingrich made a rare speech from the floor supporting it. "Offering free, tax-paid goods to illegals has increased the number of illegals," he said. "It is wrong for us to be the welfare capital of the world...
That theory may not be tested any time soon. Opponents of the amendment say they don't expect the Senate to go along with Gingrich and the House. The Speaker, Senate Democrats say, was simply responding to the anti-immigration sentiment stirred up by Pat Buchanan and playing to angry voters in delegate-rich states such as California. "It was mostly politics," agrees Linda Chavez, of the conservative, pro-immigration Center for Equal Opportunity. If the bill emerges with the school amendment intact, President Clinton could be forced to veto a bill he desperately wants to sign. Gingrich...