Word: capitol
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Workers on Capitol Hill barely had time to dismantle the scaffolding for Clinton's second Inauguration before the politics of the next presidential election began getting in the way of business in Congress. With Gephardt staking out positions to the left of Gore on a range of issues, Republicans complain they are suddenly finding Clinton far less accommodating than they had hoped. Even Democrats agree. Not only is the White House gauging g.o.p. reaction to each proposal, says Democratic Senator John Breaux of Louisiana, "they also now have to worry about how much of a real political fight it creates...
...lending a hand was instinctive, closing the deal was closer to primal. Dole flew to Washington on Tuesday from Harvard, where he'd talked the deal over with--Who else?--former aide Sheila Burke. Following the path he'd taken a million times before, he went over to the Capitol, huddled behind the same ornate doors, took up a chair on a balcony overlooking the Mall. Dole expected criticism; Gingrich need not repay a cent for eight years, and since he's vowed to leave Congress after six, the Speaker will have plenty of time to raise...
...assault on the bureau's competence could not come at a worse time. The Capitol is a stew of scandals and suspicion; the Attorney General is under fire for protecting the White House; the entire top rank of the Justice Department has been hollowed out by transfers and resignations; White House counsels come and go like munchkins. At the same time, the enemy is smarter and more slippery. New technology makes white-collar crime easier to commit and harder to prosecute. Organized crime is a much more complicated threat than in the days when the FBI battled Al Capone...
...Mall in Washington is one of the great urban spaces in the world, a two-mile-long line of green anchored by the U.S. Capitol at one end, the Lincoln Memorial at the other, and with the Washington Monument marking the center. On its flanks are groves of trees, clusters of monuments, even museums. But its central vista is an astonishment of economy. Stand at Lincoln's feet and you can see all the way to the Capitol, your gaze interrupted by nothing but the majestic spike of the Washington Monument...
...always occupied a gray area between jazz and pop. The small group setting here--vibraphonist Red Norvo's quintet plus longtime Sinatra pianist Bill Miller--frees him to the extent that on some numbers his sense of swing and invention approaches Ella Fitzgerald's joyous, ineluctable pulse (and justifies Capitol's releasing this find on its Blue Note jazz subsidiary). With I've Got You Under My Skin, Sinatra even surpasses the vocal on his famous Songs for Swingin' Lovers version, which really belongs to arranger Nelson Riddle. And as wonderful as that studio performance is, it doesn't include...