Word: capitol
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From between the heavy draperies of House majority whip Tom DeLay's first-floor Capitol office, a bizarre scene could be glimpsed outside. In the normally quiet, heavily guarded parking lot, 13 elephants from the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus were parading trunk-in-tail across the East Plaza, leading an entourage of dancing dogs and clowns on stilts. At the center of the mini-circus, a beaming Speaker Newt Gingrich shared a ring with a 14,762-lb. elephant named King Tusk. Touching off what would become a daylong stampede of inevitable jokes, the Speaker announced that...
Band of Gypsys Jimi Hendrix Capitol Records...
...legend for a new generation of listeners. Of all the Hendrix reissues from the past few years (which include a great deal of previously unreleased material), perhaps the album most worthy of re-appraisal is that bastard son of Jimi recordings, Band of Gypsys, which is being distributed by Capitol Records twenty-five years after the original release...
...minorities in China are given proper quotas of representatives in the NPC, but how many Asian or Hispanic voices can be heard on Capitol Hill? Regarding social status, the mistake becomes more obvious. Over half of the NPC members come from farms and factories, and their average yearly income doesn't exceed $1,000. In contrast, there is no doubt that politics here is a game played by millionaires. If the NPC did have discrimination based on social status, the discrimination might be against the wealthy...
...Hanna's visit to the Speaker's office today. Gingrich, who said his boyhood dream had been to be a zookeeper, invited Hanna to drop by with a few friends, which also included a python and a poisonous African toad. Although Hanna normally includes a tiger in his entourage, Capitol Police balked at letting him pack a tranquilizer gun. Instead, Hanna brought a newt. "Notice how small and unprepossessing they are," Gingrich said, with a smile, as the newt stood on his hand...