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Freshman representatives of the United States Congress received advice from longtime legislators about how to navigate a bitterly divided Capitol Hill yesterday morning during the Kennedy School of Government’s biennial conference for newly elected members of Congress...
...we’ve heard how California’s der gropen fuehrer has turned his considerable charms on sleepy, star-struck Sacramento—that under a canvas tent outside the state capitol, surrounded by sculptures and pictures of himself, the self-described “biggest star in the world” shares Cuban cigars with assemblymen from places like Oxnard and Fullerton. Occasionally, he even offers them rides back to their districts on his Gulfstream jet, and lets them bask in the light of his Hollywood-produced 67 percent approval rating in front of a hometown crowd...
...totem pole here. I've only been here 18 years. I never was a big-Eastern-city guy. They're too big and too fast. I like that ranch life out there where I live. But this is where the job is. Every time I see this Capitol, I get the same feeling I've had for 18 years. Sometimes in the wintertime, when the snow is on the ground here and you see this building in the moonlight, it's just hard to explain the feeling that...
...Goss has so far turned out to be anything but a company man. In less than two months as CIA chief, he has turned the agency's clandestine-operations wing upside down, sparking the resignations of some of its highest-ranking officers, alarming even reform-minded lawmakers on Capitol Hill and turning the heads of White House officials who prefer their housecleaners to do things quietly. It has been difficult to tell if Goss was orchestrating a loyalty purge or making an example of some of the CIA's best operatives. Either way, Goss has unleashed a costly spectacle that...
...south of Las Vegas, in a tiny wood shack with a tin roof. He boarded with a family to attend high school in Henderson, 40 miles away, and he later went to college with money chipped in by Henderson townsfolk. Once an amateur boxer, he worked nights as a Capitol Hill police officer to pay for law school at George Washington University. As chairman of the Nevada Gaming Commission from 1977 to 1981, Reid, a devout Mormon, battled organized crime's control of Vegas casinos and contended with threats as well as a bomb placed in his wife...