Word: capitol
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...United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, more than a dozen years in planning and construction, has been built at the edge of the mall, L'Enfant's expanse that is a kind of spacious American myth-yard. There the eye sweeps across the Capitol and Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial and Jefferson Memorial, the white marbles softened at this time of year by dogwood and cherry blossoms. The mall bespeaks 18th century Enlightenment come to America, a certain lucidity and ideal. The Holocaust museum is like the 20th century Endarkenment, a dense, evil mystery set down in the New World, an ocean...
Even by American standards of interest-group celebrity, gay men have loomed large in the nation's consciousness, surfacing at Roseanne's side on prime time television, as superheroes in DC Comics and on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers fuss over showering habits in the barracks. But last week, as they prepared for the largest march on Washington in six years, gay men became the - first put-upon minority in the country to have struggled toward a moment of national definition only to find themselves suddenly redefined. Here they were, about to sit down face to face with the President...
...more inclined to lecture than listen -- have long since made up their minds. Although committee chairman Sam Nunn has been one of the harshest critics of Clinton's proposal, he clearly hopes to find a middle ground that won't leave the military badly divided. The word around the Capitol is that after a spring of hearings, the end result will be the compromise imposed -- and hailed again by Nunn last week -- of simply not demanding to know a recruit's sexual preference. "It seems to me," said Nunn, "that this issue could be resolved along the lines...
However, Tribe has his enemies on Capitol Hill. He has been vocal on constitutional issues, most particularly on abortion, and Republicans still remember the Bork testimony...
...storms tumbling over his family's land along the Green River in Wyoming and Colorado, the other on news accounts of plans to raise the $1.86 grazing fee (a cow and her calf for a month) to $3 or maybe $5 or even $10. Away from the floodlit Capitol dome, he said quietly, "We are standing on the edge of an abyss. It's scary. Unless we can find some basis for a rational discussion, we could lose it all." He held out hope that Clinton could adopt a discount rate for the smaller ranchers...