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...would be sweeping for spores in the halls of power. It would have been irresponsible and dumb to do otherwise, they said. And they could claim some vindication on Saturday when investigators found anthrax in the mail area of the Ford Office Building, on the House side of the Capitol...
...some sense the House was especially representative last week, because the fear in the Capitol was reflected far and wide. Northwest Airlines had to remove all the Sweet'N Low from its planes because so many flights were being delayed by powdery fears. Emergency rooms all over the country were swamped with people with flulike symptoms: Was it anthrax, or anxiety, or just October? Mail handlers were wearing rubber gloves, office workers were refusing to open their mail; and there were so many hoaxes that frustrated cops are threatening to put the wise guys in jail for life if they...
...anxiety level was already plenty high. Anthrax exposure was appearing at all the networks, in the midtown Manhattan office of New York Governor George Pataki and among lab and postal workers who had handled suspicious letters. The Capitol had been on edge for weeks; even the undersides of cars carrying House and Senate leaders were being checked with big dentist's mirrors, sniffed by dogs and searched for bombs. The vague but ominous FBI warnings had left even the leaders spooked. "I worry in the Capitol," Senate minority leader Trent Lott admitted. "We minimize the threat, perhaps irresponsibly. We have...
Sometimes it takes a disaster to bring out hidden strengths in our leaders. The anthrax scare may have emptied offices on Capitol Hill last Wednesday, but Representatives J.C. Watts of Oklahoma, Diane Watson of California and Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas, among others, demonstrated a heretofore unrecognized capacity to get jiggy with it in a new music video by rapper MC HAMMER, filmed by the Capitol's reflecting pool. In keeping with the song's inspirational message, which Hammer described as "take it head on, be strong, stand up and fight," the pols were at their feistiest...
...would be sweeping for spores in the halls of power. It would have been irresponsible and dumb to do otherwise, they said. And they could claim some vindication on Saturday when investigators found anthrax in the mail area of the Ford Office Building, on the House side of the Capitol...