Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...summer of 1989, as I recollect, the kind of swampy, sweaty Washington day that makes cheap, polyester, short-sleeve shirts stick to the bulging middles of the bureaucrats. Edmund Morris and I ducked into the coolness of the F Street Club. Edmund had driven over from his Capitol Hill town house in his new Jaguar sedan. But even the soothing luxury of the club didn't seem to console Edmund...
Before we get to Garth Brooks' new pop-rock album, Garth Brooks in...The Life of Chris Gaines (Capitol), let's talk a bit about sports. Five years ago, when basketball star Michael Jordan decided to give pro baseball a go, he was widely ridi-culed by sportswriters. In actuality, though, Jordan's sports switch was one of the bravest things he ever did. It showed he was willing to compete even in an arena in which he clearly wasn't the best. After all, sports isn't just about winning--it's about trying too. O.K., maybe...
Later in the day a group of students, faculty and university presidents mingled with members of Congress on Capitol Hill to try to impart a personal importance to the funding issue...
President Neil L. Rudenstine traveled in person last week to Capitol Hill and the White House in an attempt to save government funding to federal research agencies that sponsor university work...
...pundit's dream topic, since it's more fun to lay blame than confront facts and complexity. The "Who lost" phrase is custom cut for G.O.P. presidential contenders to score points against Democratic candidate Al Gore, tagging him as the front man in the Clinton Administration's "failed policy." Capitol Hill is aboil with hearings, beginning this week, aimed at flogging the Administration for everything that's gone wrong in Russia. And the Clinton folks are fighting back with high-spin verbiage, casting the debate as a stark choice between helping Russia and abandoning it, and shifting the focus...