Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what he should say. The first draft, largely written by Mari Maseng Will, was too strident, too mean, "too much red meat." He called in a Senate staff member to rewrite . and rewrite. When he rose to address the Concord audience gathered in the historic hall of the state capitol, he opened his binder, stared at the pages for a moment and looked seasick. He turned a page, then another, as though they were out of order and he was not sure where to begin. For half an hour he lurched between anecdotes and themes with no transitions. Scattered throughout...
...were tough and slovenly--and we studied Greek: Studs Lonigan with brains. We did three hours of homework a night and drank too much beer on weekends. We hitchhiked or rode the streetcar and bus to North Capitol and Eye streets, to a neighborhood called Swampoodle. Gonzaga was a proud but touchy school in a squalid neighborhood, with a whorehouse across the street (a source of some entertainment in Latin class, when we would translate Virgil and through the window covertly watch the women emerge to stretch and take the morning sun on their stoop...
...Eppard: the fierce gatekeeper deciding who sees the Congressman and who doesn't, the lieutenant whose years of iron loyalty have been rewarded with his deepest trust, the steward of his fund raising. Rarely are these staff members known outside the lawmaker's narrow orbit. But when Eppard left Capitol Hill the day after the 1994 election to start her own lobbying firm, many of the nation's richest interests were clamoring to sign her up, showering her with hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees...
...Common Cause plans this week to ask the House ethics committee to look into the relationship between the chairman and his former aide, who continues to serve as his top political adviser. What got people talking was a story that appeared earlier this month in the twice-a-week Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call. Just after dawn on Jan. 25, the paper's reporter spotted the 9th district Congressman and Eppard pulling out of her recently purchased $823,000 town house. She was driving her 1994 Dodge sedan, which bears the official-looking license plate "US House PA 9." Shuster...
Frishberg attributed the recent rollback on environmental regulations and cuts to students aid to Capitol Hill's focus on the interests of the "money power" rather than the interests of youth...