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...school year, Mack did a stint in the insurance business before joining a daily newspaper in Albany, N.Y. Mack says he had not had any newspaper experience before graduating. Two years after working in Albany, he joined UPI, a wire service, and became its correspondent at the state Capitol...
...soon. Democratic Senators have been slow in recommending names to the White House, which in turn has dragged its feet in forwarding those recommendations to the Senate for confirmation. At a private meeting with federal judges last week, Clinton promised to send close to two dozen new names to Capitol Hill by July 4. But once they get there, they face new hurdles. Last year the Senate confirmed only 17 federal district-court judges and none for the appeals courts. This year looks even worse, with only two confirmations thus far. The number of days from nomination to confirmation...
After the Hill, a Washington newspaper, detailed Burton's many contributions from Sikh groups in the U.S., the Congressman returned $646 in donations that had come directly from religious organizations in violation of campaign finance laws. Then Roll Call, a Capitol biweekly, uncovered Burton's efforts to win concessions from the Education Department on behalf of a campaign contributor who runs a medical school in the Caribbean. And last week the Hill detailed Burton's sporadic history of praising Zaire's Mobutu after receiving contributions and honoraria from Mobutu's Washington lobbyist. The report caused Burton to return...
...criticism, including from George Kennan, the 93-year-old dean of U.S. Sovietologists, who is worried that expansion could incite anti-Western factions in Russia. But there is currently no national figure around whom opposition is likely to coalesce. Congress backs expansion. As is often the case, conviction on Capitol Hill is wider than it is deep, but in this case two added factors undergird support: a lingering belief that anything Russia hates cannot be bad, and that 20 million American voters of Eastern or Central European heritage want their homelands protected, as they were not a half-century...
...piles." Jefferson found his model for a new American architecture in the south of France: a Roman temple, the so-called Maison Carree, or Square House, which he felt exemplified the candid virtues of the old Roman state. It became the basis of his design for the Virginia State Capitol in Richmond, completed in 1799. It was the first temple-form state building to be erected anywhere in 1,500 years--new because it was old, commemorating the past in the interest of the future, a model for architecture in the new democracy. And he followed it with the greatest...