Word: capitols
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After the Hill, a Washington newspaper, detailed Burton's many contributions from Sikh groups in the U.S., the Congressman returned $646 in donations that had come directly from religious organizations in violation of campaign finance laws. Then Roll Call, a Capitol biweekly, uncovered Burton's efforts to win concessions from the Education Department on behalf of a campaign contributor who runs a medical school in the Caribbean. And last week the Hill detailed Burton's sporadic history of praising Zaire's Mobutu after receiving contributions and honoraria from Mobutu's Washington lobbyist. The report caused Burton to return...
...piles." Jefferson found his model for a new American architecture in the south of France: a Roman temple, the so-called Maison Carree, or Square House, which he felt exemplified the candid virtues of the old Roman state. It became the basis of his design for the Virginia State Capitol in Richmond, completed in 1799. It was the first temple-form state building to be erected anywhere in 1,500 years--new because it was old, commemorating the past in the interest of the future, a model for architecture in the new democracy. And he followed it with the greatest...
...some very heated arguments," says Senate Budget chairman Pete Domenici of the months of intense negotiations in his Capitol hideaway. "But this was big adult men knowing we had something to do." Before it was over, the can-do spirit in the negotiating room had grown so heady that Kasich, 44, reached over to hug Gene Sperling, Clinton's 38-year-old national economic adviser. "C'mon, Gene!" cried the gung-ho Kasich. "Let's do it for our generation...
...French farce) is quite working to full capacity. As long as they?re borrowing from offshore sources, why not this old, curiously appropriate title: Memoirs of Underdevelopment." BOOKS . . . ECHO HOUSE: Ward Just's new novel (Houghton Mifflin; 328 pages; $25) returns to his familiar territory of the nation's capitol in a story that spans nearly the entire 20th century and sees the Federal District emerge from drowsy Southern town into frenetic center of world power. "Just, a Washington journalist in the early ?60s, writes from experience," says TIME's R.Z. Sheppard. "But there is no master clef to this...
...Strom Thurmond dream of Fay Wray in his youth? Wray, 89, who made 80 films before 1960, popped up on Capitol Hill last week sans King Kong but with Julius Epstein, who wrote Casablanca, to talk about copyright law. She and fellow Hollywood old-timers want Congress to award writers of pre-1960 films royalties each time their work is rerun...