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...Washington is in culture shock. The new mecca is vastly different: the crowd is rich, young and isn't naturally inclined toward politics or government. Last summer Bobbie Kilberg, NVTC president, threw a fund raiser for George W. Bush's presidential campaign. She thought about having the event downtown but discovered that prospective donors in the high-tech suburbs weren't keen about that idea. Kilberg held the event near the Dulles Toll Road instead. It was the first real political event anyone could remember in northern Virginia, generating $600,000 for Bush...
...things and make sure everyone was loyal, especially the wily genius campaign guru Lee Atwater. W. was going nowhere in Texas, so he came up, brought the family, moved into a town house not far from the old family place in Spring Valley and took an office downtown at the shabby campaign headquarters. And over the next 18 months, he discovered things about his father and himself and the oily internal workings of national politics that cleared the way for everything that would come after. It was as though he got to perform the ultimate act of synthesis: take...
Olympia's rock scene used to be Seattle's unpopular sister, sequestered in a state capital of 40,000 with a Norman Rockwellish downtown specializing in hiking gear and Italian sodas, and a local college, Evergreen, that is one of America's most left-wing and unconventional fonts of higher learning. While Seattle's bands headbanged on MTV in the alternative-rock heyday of the early '90s, Olympia was locked in her bedroom reading postmodern gender theory and writing songs on her eight-track for college-radio cognoscenti. Now that Seattle's grunge empire has been sacked and burned...
Most protesters Tuesday shunned the carefully controlled conditions of the First Union Center and opted instead for havoc on the open streets of downtown Philadelphia, among the high-rise hotels where most Republican Delegates stayed...
...Police Administration Building downtown, processing began for previous day's arrests. Outside, about two hundred protesters marched in support of those inside, demanding their release...