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...Despite the dramatic gains by the Democrats, Newsweek assistant managing editor Evan W. Thomas ’73 said that he didn’t foresee dramatic changes on Capitol Hill...
...Pelosi a mandate for change to launch the kind of tough anti-G.O.P. agenda the White House and their Republican allies on the Hill had feared. "The campaign is over," Pelosi shouted on Election Night, grinning with confidence in front of hundreds of roaring supporters blocks from the Capitol in Washington D.C. "Democrats are ready to lead!" A hoarse Rep. Rahm Emanuel, head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, told the cheering supporters, "We'll give you the government that no longer lets you down." And he pledged to "reach across the partisan divide...
...hands of the other party. Clinton used Executive Orders and his bully pulpit to encourage school uniforms, impose ergonomic rules on employers and prevent mining, logging and development on 60 million acres of public land. White House press secretary Tony Snow says Bush may take the same bypass around Capitol Hill. "He told all of us, 'Put on your track shoes. We're going to run to the finish,'" Snow said. "He's going to be aggressive on a lot of fronts. He's been calling all his Cabinet secretaries and telling them, 'You tell me administratively everything...
...Their blood-curdling cries will strike fear into the hearts of even the bravest Sunday stroller. The graves at Mt. Auburn provide an architectural counterpoint to its natural fall beauty. The tombstone of Charles Bulfinch—architect of such early 19th century Federal-style landmarks as the U.S. Capitol, Faneuil Hall, and Harvard’s own University Hall—is stunning. Set along luminous Bellwort Path, Bulfinch rests beneath a giant, ornate vase. “Graduated at Harvard” are the only words legible of a long, worn-down epitaph. Slightly different in style...
...social movements seem to endure that kind of lurching debate over ideological purity. Selma in 1965 gave way to armed Black Panthers marching on the California capitol two years later. The Stonewall riots of 1969--a reaction against years of police brutality--seem quaintly simple compared with the 1989 storming of St. Patrick's Cathedral by AIDS activists. Gallaudet's current protests, which began months ago and have involved blockades and arrests and charges of violence on both sides, aren't Selma; they're Chicago in 1969, the deaf community's Days of Rage...