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Emerging from Harvard's hall of mirrors, I sense a bittersweet surplus of irony and hypocrisy. I've continually been reminded of a Wall street Journal Cartoon which appeared only a few years ago. One member of congress walks by the Capitol as he confides to another: "I'm liberal," he says, "except where I'm concerned." This delicious quip has applied exceedingly well to almost all places and times, sometimes to my annoyance and other times to my amusement...
...former U.S. Sen. Jim Sasser, a spring fellow at the Institute of Politics, said that universities have already acknowledged that they are not being consulted as often as they once were and have taken measures that they hope will renew their relevance on Capitol Hill...
...White House's defense was -- well, defensive. Clinton's apologia basically was Congress made me do it. In truth, the heat from Capitol Hill could no longer be ignored. Although pressure was strongest from Republican conservatives who swept congressional elections last November, sentiments in favor of Lee were bipartisan: nonbinding resolutions for the visa passed both the House and Senate by nearly unanimous votes. While Clinton's advisers refused at first to budge on the issue, they began worrying about a Republican bill that would force their hands and, in effect, remove China policy from presidential control. In their view...
...least the marble was unblemished. Twenty-two years after he resigned the vice presidency in disgrace, having pleaded no contest to tax-evasion charges, SPIRO AGNEW finally had his graven image added to the Capitol's gallery of Vice Presidents. Richard Nixon's onetime right-hand man was pleased with the honor-and with the likeness, which he said captured what "pundits" called his "squinty little eyes and mastodonic nose." He also noted that "the honor has less to do with Spiro Agnew than the honor I held." About 300 guests turned up for the unveiling, including some...
...record 3.5 million members. "That's twice as many as the Christian Coalition," boasts Arizona sheriff Richard Mack. At the same time, the N.R.A. has developed a grass-roots network of political activists that, at a time of low voter turnout, is inspiring a new level of fear on Capitol Hill. "We have a political system that rewards intensity," says Thomas Mann of the Brookings Institution. "The only way you overcome that is to match their intensity with an intensity among those on the other side, and in the gun debate that has not happened...