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...Aggressively dressed in a long, full, Out of Africa skirt," Alexander writes at one point, she set out to trace her poet's imaginings. Mighty string-pulling brought a rare approval from the Chinese to visit Shangdu, in military territory 200 miles north of Beijing. This was the summer capitol -- pleasure dome is a fair description -- established by Kublai (1215-1294), grandson of Genghis Khan, and a personage who, according to Marco Polo, "always rides on the back of four elephants, in a very handsome shelter of wood, covered inside with cloth of beaten gold and outside with lion skins...
...fact, the tangled web was spun by the Administration itself. What emerged from more than 100 hours of complex testimony about the Whitewater scandal was evidence of a persistent pattern of deception among White House staff members. By last week it was clear that both Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill felt they had been misled by the Clinton White House. Roger Altman demanded that lawmakers believe his own recollections of meetings, rather than those of seven other officials who contradicted him under oath. Joshua Steiner, the 28- year-old Treasury chief of staff, insisted that his diary...
...Democratic National Committee, aired on CNN. At rallies last week in New Jersey and on the White House lawn, Clinton pounded the podiums with calls for the G.O.P. to get with the program. "If Bob Dole and the special interests win," Vice President Al Gore told another crowd on Capitol Hill, "millions of Americans will lose...
...second day in a row, moderates lobbed eleventh-hour health-care bills onto the floor of Congress, undermining the proposal that has the support of President Clinton. Even as the President sent members of his Cabinet to Capitol Hill to shore up support for Senate majority leader George Mitchell's bill, centrist Senators announced plans to introduce a stripped-down, bipartisan bill that would not increase taxes or require that employers pay for workers' insurance. Just yesterday a group of House members introduced an even milder bill that would leave 26 million people uninsured. TIME Washington correspondent Dick Thompson says...
...other side of Capitol Hill, FBI and U.S. park-police investigators affirmed before the Senate Banking Committee that the death of deputy White House counsel Vincent Foster was a suicide unrelated to Whitewater...