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PROSPECTS A sure bet; House Speaker Gingrich had the idea before Clinton...
...bilingual education has also spawned controversy in such states as New York, Michigan and Colorado. And it is a cause celebre among conservatives in Washington. "When we allow children to stay trapped in bilingual programs where they do not learn English, we are destroying their economic future," House Speaker Newt Gingrich declared this month. He and other Republicans call for a return to the traditional expectation that immigrants will quickly learn English as the price of admission to America...
...remember very vividly sitting with my back on the floor, under the computer, with the speaker phone connected to tech support as they tried to talk me through a rescue on a hard drive that had overheated," he says...
Like many other aging '60s firebrands, Cleaver, the keynote speaker at Monday's Martin Luther King Jr. memorial service, has moderated her tone and perhaps her message. But the former communications secretary of the Black Panther Party, who is now an assistant professor of law at Emory University, did seek to justify her past Black Panther activism by appropriating the respect accorded to King and transforming it into a legitimization of her message of militant resistance, a message that King explicitly rejected...
...worth of tickets and favors from the likes of chicken czar Don Tyson) turns out to be perfectly legal for the lawmakers clamoring for his head. So many members find their way to the Super Bowl each year that they almost have a quorum in the stadium. Last month, Speaker Newt Gingrich flew to London first class with his wife ($20,268), staying at Claridge's ($12,225) and eating well (close to $700). Atlantic Richfield--the oil company with dreams of drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge--paid for everything. "Every American," Gingrich said, "should make this trip...