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Scrapbook The Dole-Gingrich Split (cont'd) When John Boehner, the House Republican conference chief, informed a roomful of lobbyists of House speaker Newt Gingrich's plan to hang tough in budget...
...Until Gingrich got in trouble over controversial statements, an ethics investigation (he's been largely exonerated), and a Federal Election Commission suit, Dole deferred to his strategic advice...
...The president plowed on undeterred as he addressed the AIDS sufferers...
...He really wants to run for governor again in 1998...
...Ergo he hammers welfare folks...
...Curry will decide by Christmas whether to run...
...artifacts-bought by an Ohio settler for $57 last century and currently in the custody of the Ohio Historical Association-has been assessed at $1 million...
...had scolded politicians who quote Alexis de Tocqueville as saying things Tocqueville never said...
...Walter Duranty Lives...
...Alexis de Tocqueville said in the the 1830s that . . ." The People Have a Conniption The U.S...
...The Reading List The Reading List must apologize for its sloppiness in recent issues...
...For this week, then, the Reading List will stay mute, licking its wounds and preparing a really good Christmas list for you next week...
...Pitney singled out the one about America's being a great country because it is a good country...
...Amazingly enough, Mailer's is not the worst poem inspired by the Newt Gingrich speakership...
...Some were quick to claim a reversal for Indian-rights groups...
...In any case, here, in its entirety, is Mailer's poem, which was published in last week's "Talk of the Town" section: Newt Gingrich looks for angry votes...
...There in the "Christmas Issue" of the New York Review of Books, leading the letters section, is a strongly worded complaint about a Robert Block essay on Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic...
...Here's what's happened in the week since: 1) Heileman Brewery was banned from selling Crazy Horse beer in Minnesota when state public safety commissioner Michael Jordan ruled that the brand implies an association with the Indian leader...
...Gingrich wants to put maximum pressure on President Clinton by raising the prospect of another government shutdown...
...Shut Up in the Belly In announcing his retirement, Sen...
...well, the I.D...
...Alan Simpson said he no longer had "the old fire in the belly" for politics...
...Don't count on it, though...
...As for Black Mischief, Emperor Seth is so far from being a cannibal that, like a particularly obtuse U.N...
...Bill Clinton's Pathetic Misquotations Proof positive that President Clinton isn't reading The Standard came on Dec...
...Scrapbook The Dole-Gingrich Split (cont'd) When John Boehner, the House Republican conference chief, informed a roomful of lobbyists of House speaker Newt Gingrich's plan to hang tough in budget talks with the White House, he was almost immediately contradicted by Senate GOP leader Bob Dole...
...He lost to her narrowly in 1982, but since then Johnson has won re-election handily...
...forgive us...
...David Binder, for the record, is...
...Somehow we got the plot crossed with War and Peace...
...Senate that would allow unlimited boxing (presumably including no-holds-barred matches) on federal Indian reservations...
...Though it is, of course, true that in the last paragraph of the book, the hapless newspaperman Boot of the Beast is eaten right up...
...Just weeks before (in our November 13 issue), John J. Pitney, Jr...
...No more...
...observer in Rwanda, he simply does not have eyes to see what is happening around him...
...Poetry Is Back...
...Yeah, sure...
...Literate readers have written in to call attention to some gaffes and blunders, all committed in the haste brought about by deadline pressure...
...district court after neighbors in the residential area objected to the pair's starting raging fires in the yard of their home in enactment of a "Lakota sweat lodge rite...
...And then this: "I strongly wish to dissociate myself from [Block's] assessment of the general as a crazed killer...
...David Binder writes that Block has appropriated from his own past work, without citation, some basic biographical details on Mladic...
...6, when the president addressed a White House conference on HIV and AIDS...
...on his letter says it all: "The New York Times, Washington Bureau, Washington, D.C...
...will be able to buy their treasures back...
...General Mladic, for the record, is the subject of an International War Crimes Tribunal indictment for genocide...
...30 that Chief Illiniwek can stay on as the University of Illinois's Native American mascot...
...The relief at the White House was palpable...
...Johnson is closely identified with Gingrich's plan to reform Medicare, a favorite Democratic target...
...The use of "fire in the belly" to describe political commitment has become a cliche more desperately in need of retirement than Simpson himself: A Nexis search reveals that the phrase has been used in a political context 955 times since 1976, to describe everyone from Harvard graduate students to Pat Schroeder and Paul Tsongas...
...2) The Chumash Indians of southern California, the Washington Post notes, are demanding that the town of Malibu require that oceanfront building sites get an inspection for Indian burial grounds (which can be carried out only by a certified Indian, at rates up to $46,000...
...At least the Republican revolution seems to be heralding a return to rhyme in the land of Free Verse...
...It kind of jumps right off the page at you...
...The regalia should be returned to the Clearwater River, according to the tribe's spokesman, Herman Reuben, and its ethnographer, Allen Slickpoo, Sr...
...Try to imagine how Norman Mailer must have pitched his latest poem to New Yorker editor Tina Brown: "Tina, I've been trying my hand at verse, and I feel I've touched on something quite profound...
...One solution is in sight: An amendment just passed the U.S...
...I ask all of you to remember this," he began...
...Department of Education ruled Nov...
...This is fundamentally a good country...
...Democratic leaders are trying to persuade Bill Curry, the centrist White House aide who lost the Connecticut governor's race in 1994, to challenge Johnson...
...Who says the Times can't any longer be depended on to employ unconventional men with unconventional views...
...There lie his presidential hopes: Apotheosis of the Snopes...
...If that passes, the Nez Perc...
...Peter Hansen of Walpole, N.H., writes: "Fabrizio doesn't plot to assassinate anybody in The Charterhouse of Parma, least of all Napoleon, whom he worships...
...4) The Idaho Nez Perc?, meanwhile, are beside themselves that the Spalding-Allen collection of Nez Perc...
...But Dole, operating off a different playbook, declared publicly there'd be no shutdown...
...Here is a stanza from that much longer work: Said the Neo-Conservative skeleton Homeless off the Street Said the Free Market Skeleton Use 'em up for meat...
...Meanwhile, Democrats continue to harass Gingrich and anyone associated with him, such as Ethics Committee chairman Nancy Johnson of Connecticut...
...Enough already...
...Allen Ginsberg's "On Political Skeletons," published last month in the Nation, retires that honor...
...Until compelling evidence to the contrary surfaces, I will continue to view Mladic as a superb professional...
...Republicans would offer a continuing resolution to avert that...
...3) In Bailey, Colorado, two local whites (one claims a Chaddo Indian grandmother) are suing in U.S...
Vol. 1 • December 1995 • No. 14
