Word: capitols
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...have any suite I want." NANCY PELOSI, House minority leader, on which office she would occupy in the Capitol if the Democrats take the House in November...
...backyard was spacious by oft-cramped Capitol Hill standards. Foley was probably the oldest in a small crowd that downed burgers and hot dogs in addition to plenty of beer and probably a good many gin and tonics. Fordham was there, as I recall, and some of Foley's other aides, including some attractive young women. One or two other reporters were there in addition to my colleague...
...easy to dismiss the congressional page program as an antiquated, elitist form of serfdom. That's because it is. I should know - I myself journeyed to the Capitol a decade ago to become a Senate page. On a snowy January day, I moved into an $8 million dorm that housed a group of teenagers better connected than Jack Abramoff...
...woke Senator Jesse Helms up from many a nap, and I watched on multiple occasions as Sen. Strom Thurmond pinched my fellow female pages' behinds. But none of these things happened far from the Senate floor, and I can't remember more than a handful of times in the Capitol that I wasn't well supervised...
...contrasts sharply with the story presented by both sides of the Iraq war debate, the Pentagon spin masters and fierce critics. Perhaps inevitably, the "Letter from Iraq" moved quickly beyond the small group of acquantainaces and hit the inboxes of retired generals, officers in the Pentagon, and staffers on Capitol Hill. TIME's Sally B. Donnelly first received a copy three weeks ago but only this week was able to track down the author and verify the document's authenticity. The author wishes to remain anonymous but has allowed us to publish it here - with a few judicious omissions...