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...happens, one model for this Scrooge was not Newt Gingrich but Charles Dickens. "He was a very generous man," says Mike Ockrent, the show's director and co-author, "but I think he viewed himself as a potential Scrooge -- what he might have become had his attitude been different." This Christmas Carol grafts part of Dickens' biography (his days as a child laborer, his father's trip to debtors' prison) onto Scrooge. It makes him less a villain than a victim of his times. "Scrooge is really every one of us," notes the show's composer, Alan Menken...
...solution is not, as Newt Gingrich would maintain, to slash funds for welfare and place the children of single mothers in orphanages. The problem of poverty is a real one, and the Republicans cannot make it disappear merely by ignoring the depth of the crisis. People sometimes need help, and it is the obligation of any humane, civil society to provide...
...been warned to temper her remarks, and "if she had not resigned she would have been terminated." The firing comes as Clinton continues to make moves designed to appear responsive to the public's perceived rightward shift. Accordingly, today's action drew approval from incoming House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), who said, "It's good for the country and good for the president that she's departed." (The most prominent Elders defender so far, birth-control booster Planned Parenthood, said this afternoon that Elders had brought "a welcome dose of real-world wisdom" to Washington...
...series of rule changes that will force staff cuts, limit committee chairmen to three consecutive terms and eliminate all $5 million in funds for 28 legislative support groups, such as the Congressional Black Caucus. Howls of protests from Democrats were immediately unleashed. House Republicans also approved incoming Speaker Newt Gingrich's choices for House committee chairman, including Reps. Bill Archer of Texas at the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee; Bob Livingston of Louisiana at Appropriations; John Kasich of Ohio at the Budget Committee and Henry Hyde of Illinois at the Judiciary Committee. (No chairman was chosen for the ethics...
Among the GOP's cost-cutting votes today: a ban on "commemorative" declarations like National Good Teen Days and National Domestic Violence Awareness Month -- measures it says eats about $300,000 a year. House Speaker-elect Newt Gingrich called the commemoratives a "feel-good" function of publicity-seeking Democrats: "What we are saying to people is we believe a smaller government with less of a burden, with less intrusion in your life, will make you feel even better...