Word: capitol
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although he is known as a self-absorbed dictator, Giuliani would be only an average blowhard in the Capitol, so I find him more charming than his press clippings. He speaks without a text, makes his own calls, never goes off the record. We stop for lunch, and he puts a $20 bill on the counter, and so do I--one of those postmodern-ethics moments when neither of us can accept the other's hospitality. He gives me half of his deep-dish pizza, having made the better choice. Sure, he's pleased with himself. But unlike...
...blonds. And it's spreading from trend-conscious Manhattan and Beverly Hills to middle American towns like Madison, Wis. Michael Nowland, a stylist at Madison's Vogue Hair Co., says a third of his male clients have tips, a look he has seen on a legislator at the state capitol as well as Mark Koehn, a 43-year-old local-news anchor. "You're seeing it in offices, and I don't really think this is a fad," Nowland says. "It's men evolving into the same degree of fashion rights that women have...
KANSAS repealed the ban on the consumption of alcohol in the state capitol from...
...arrows. No sooner had Gore begun his cancer speech than Administration aides were leaking their own big medical news--the boss's plans for Medicare reform--thereby stepping on Gore's headlines. The President is less cavalier about Hillary's priorities. He rearranged his schedule so that a Capitol Hill Medicare event would not distract from the First Lady's photo op at the National Archives. He went to New York to start raising $125 million for his presidential library. Not much in that for Al, especially at a time when Hillary was also scavenging around New York, looking...
...until the primaries are over. For McCain, it is plenty evil enough. For Clinton and Gore, soft money was the Buddhist monks and the Lincoln bedroom. For the Republicans, it is the NRA and Big Tobacco ? and the source of Mitch McConnell's power. For a lonely maverick on Capitol Hill, it is the source of all that is infuriating about lawmaking: pork barrels, partisanship, gridlock and the refusal of individuals to occasionally heed their consciences instead of their parties. It is why smart men like Bill Bradley and Sam Nunn and Warren Rudman gave up on the Senate entirely...