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...maybe all Ebenezer Scrooge needed was a spin doctor, someone who would warn him to stop calling the Christmas spirit "humbug" and reterm it "misguided compassion." But Gingrich is right to be concerned about whether the G.O.P. revolution is seen as spirited or mean-spirited. House Republicans have come roaring into Washington promising not just to remake welfare but to pull down the whole edifice of federal poverty programs. They say that in doing so, they are merely carrying out the mandate of the voters who sent them to Congress. To the extent that there is clear voter sentiment...
...HUMBUG, JOBLESS: But newly-empowered Republicans praised Greenspan and hinted that they may give him what he has long desired: the freedom to pursue monetary policies without particular concern for full-employment policies. Currently, the Fed's directive -- in force since 1978 -- requires the central bank to pursue the aim of maximum employment, stable prices and moderate, long-term interest rates. But Sen. Connie Mack (R-Fla.), future chairman of the Joint Economic Committee, said today that he would "seek to remove all aspects of employment and economic control from the Fed's mandates." The Economic Strategy Institute, a liberal...
Until now, this sort of Bah, humbug! approach to the Scriptures was in full display largely in the rarefied and theologically correct atmosphere of seminaries and elite universities. John Dominic Crossan, a Bible scholar at DePaul University, notes that there was an "implicit deal -- you scholars can go off to the universities and write in the journals and say anything you want." Now, he says, "the scholars are coming out of the closet," demanding public attention for the way they think. Among the latest such works are Crossan's Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography (HarperSanFrancisco; $18), Burton Mack's The Lost...