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...world stage, was becoming less essential. He disappeared to a new weekend place in Maryland, and friends fretted about his weight. Katrina hit, and he tarried at his home in Wyoming, checking in by videoconference. Harriet Miers was picked for the Supreme Court, and he found out secondhand. On Capitol Hill last week, the Republican Party was coping with an impasse over spending cuts and the fallout from an embarrassing loss in the Virginia Governor's race, and he was in South Dakota for a week of pheasant hunting. "I just haven't seen him around as much lately," said...
...washy 2004 presidential run. This time the model is Newt Gingrich's Contract with America campaign of 1994, in which Republicans across the country ran on the same 10 reforms and took control of the House after 40 years. "We're going to have all our candidates on the Capitol steps" just as Gingrich did, Emanuel says, "and we're going to put ad money behind...
...custody, America's new spy chief seems less enthusiastic about the leeway his operatives have had. At a secret briefing for U.S. Senators on Oct. 26, a senior U.S. intelligence official tells TIME, Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte was pointedly neutral on Vice President Dick Cheney's Capitol Hill lobbying to have the CIA exempted from legislation banning mistreatment of detainees. "It's above my pay grade," the spymaster said, then artfully dodged another question about whether the harsher interrogation tactics Cheney wants the agency to be free to use actually produce valuable intelligence...
...commerce clause of the Constitution to ban the firearms, was eventually rejected by the Supreme Court. But his rationale could potentially be used to challenge Congress's power to regulate a whole range of areas, from the environment to civil rights to the workplace. And who knows? On Capitol Hill, that prospect alone could be enough to turn the mild-mannered Alito into the scene-stealing villain so many Democrats would just love to hate...
...square-foot dance studio—but with one fewer basketball court and a reconfigured cardiovascular exercise area. The dance studio was opened to replace the Rieman Center for Dance, which was reclaimed by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study earlier this year. Elizabeth Randall, capitol projects manager at the Office of Physical Resources, said, “The school weighed losing a basketball court to the benefits of gaining a great new dance facility, and because of the requirements of high ceilings for a dance theater, the QRAC gym was one of our only options.” Quadlings...