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...totem pole here. I've only been here 18 years. I never was a big-Eastern-city guy. They're too big and too fast. I like that ranch life out there where I live. But this is where the job is. Every time I see this Capitol, I get the same feeling I've had for 18 years. Sometimes in the wintertime, when the snow is on the ground here and you see this building in the moonlight, it's just hard to explain the feeling that...
...Goss has so far turned out to be anything but a company man. In less than two months as CIA chief, he has turned the agency's clandestine-operations wing upside down, sparking the resignations of some of its highest-ranking officers, alarming even reform-minded lawmakers on Capitol Hill and turning the heads of White House officials who prefer their housecleaners to do things quietly. It has been difficult to tell if Goss was orchestrating a loyalty purge or making an example of some of the CIA's best operatives. Either way, Goss has unleashed a costly spectacle that...
...south of Las Vegas, in a tiny wood shack with a tin roof. He boarded with a family to attend high school in Henderson, 40 miles away, and he later went to college with money chipped in by Henderson townsfolk. Once an amateur boxer, he worked nights as a Capitol Hill police officer to pay for law school at George Washington University. As chairman of the Nevada Gaming Commission from 1977 to 1981, Reid, a devout Mormon, battled organized crime's control of Vegas casinos and contended with threats as well as a bomb placed in his wife...
...secret that COLIN POWELL is ready to hang up his pinstripes. But far less clear is where Bush will turn for his new top diplomat. One possibility is JOHN DANFORTH, the current ambassador to the U.N. He has support on Capitol Hill (where he served three terms as Senator from Missouri) and has won praise for pushing the Sudanese close to a peace deal after three years of negotiations. Another candidate is CONDOLEEZZA RICE. As National Security Adviser, she has dealt with virtually every foreign leader who matters but draws her influence more from her proximity to the Oval Office...
...attended Wake Forest University, then went to work for a wholesaler of outdoor power equipment. In 1992 he made an abrupt career switch. Alarmed, as he tells it, at high taxes, he ran for Congress--and lost. In 1994 he tried again, this time riding the Gingrich tsunami to Capitol Hill...