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"The Madness of Speaker Newt" chronicles Gingrich's decline: Newt's Republican "revolutionaries" are abandoning him; his advisers are recriminating over who's to blame for his collapse; and potential successors are jockeying for position.
Observers worry that their reconciliation process might collapse, possibly provoking North Korea to resume its nuclear-weapons program.
For some not knowing about the collapse but others knowing and remaining to help, see FDNY interview 49, Chief (Mar.
The cover story and lead editorial predict the automobile industry's collapse.
(The magazine's own take is more reassuring: There will be minor glitches but not wholesale societal collapse.)