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...already proposed a tax on various forms of energy that would take the country about a quarter of the way to the target for carbon dioxide reduction. But even this modest proposal is running into opposition, and it is hard to imagine a more ambitious tax getting anywhere on Capitol Hill...
Called one of the largest civil rights marches in United States history, the rally brought together what organizers said were nearly one million gays, lesbians, bisexuals and others on a march route that started at the Mall and passed the White House and Capitol building...
...agenda is part of the reason [to march], but the other is to share in our numbers," said Wofford, who also marched at the Capitol in 1987. "So many more are out of the closet, wanting to march and impatient about getting our rights...
...United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, more than a dozen years in planning and construction, has been built at the edge of the mall, L'Enfant's expanse that is a kind of spacious American myth-yard. There the eye sweeps across the Capitol and Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial and Jefferson Memorial, the white marbles softened at this time of year by dogwood and cherry blossoms. The mall bespeaks 18th century Enlightenment come to America, a certain lucidity and ideal. The Holocaust museum is like the 20th century Endarkenment, a dense, evil mystery set down in the New World, an ocean...
Even by American standards of interest-group celebrity, gay men have loomed large in the nation's consciousness, surfacing at Roseanne's side on prime time television, as superheroes in DC Comics and on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers fuss over showering habits in the barracks. But last week, as they prepared for the largest march on Washington in six years, gay men became the - first put-upon minority in the country to have struggled toward a moment of national definition only to find themselves suddenly redefined. Here they were, about to sit down face to face with the President...