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The ethics committee decision came a week after the Federal Election Commission released thousands of pages of documents in a civil lawsuit charging, among other things, that GOPAC spent $250,000 to fund Gingrich's re-election at a time when it was barred by law from involvement in federal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWT'S CASH MACHINE | 12/18/1995 | See Source »

Is he right? Most scholars don't think so, but one crucial discovery - an independent, ancient chronicle of Abraham's wanderings, perhaps - could change their minds in an instant. Similarly, a single discovery could erase all doubts about the Exodus or the sacking of Jericho or just about anything else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are the Bible's Stories True? Archaeology's Evidence | 12/18/1995 | See Source »

So it is with his Fish, 1930: a 6-ft. blade of mottled, blue-gray marble, which floats above a circular "pond" of creamy limestone. It resembles a large weather vane, and, in fact, it is mounted on hidden ball bearings, so that it can turn. The form of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: FUNK AND CHIC | 12/18/1995 | See Source »

After a year's investigation--longer than Congress took to craft its overhaul of the entire Federal Government--the House ethics committee issued its first pronouncement regarding the array of charges filed against Speaker Newt Gingrich. The panel's biggest decision: to hire a special counsel to investigate the financing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEEK: DECEMBER 3-9 | 12/18/1995 | See Source »

Fortunately, my mother corrected my false impression by explaining in so many words that the flag is merely a symbol that stands for the nation. It is not itself the physical embodiment of the sovereignty of the country, she explained; there is an important distinction to be made between symbols...

Author: By Daniel S. Albel, | Title: Flagging a National Symbol | 12/15/1995 | See Source »

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