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Washington's tourist routes are well trod, but U Street isn't playing to outsiders: it's where young, creative Washingtonians go to shake off their political straitjackets. It's also home to some of the city's richest but oft-forgotten cultural history. Back in the U Street corridor's heyday, the place to be on a Saturday night was the Lincoln Theatre. The Before Harlem There Was U Street walking tour gives you a peek inside (the theater's been restored and again hosts performances), as well as offering stops at two of Duke Ellington's childhood homes...
...history is any judge, the outcome will be mixed. The Utah War was bloodless in the end. Buchanan did install his own Governor. And then he pardoned everyone in the state. All was forgiven, if not forgotten. --With reporting by Melissa August/ Washington, Nadia Mustafa/ New York and Maggie Sieger/ Chicago
...solar photovoltaic energy, and solar sources are "growing at a 50% clip per year," says Javier García Breva, director of the Institute for Energy Diversification and Savings, the government body responsible for promoting and subsidizing renewable energies. Local authorities are even reviving some of the tiny, forgotten hydroelectric plants that dot the Spanish countryside...
...days after traveling the uneven path, the President began his prime-time press conference with a few words about high gasoline prices--the same old words: No easy solution, drill more, expand the use of coal and nuclear and figure out ways to conserve. This perfunctory recitation was quickly forgotten as Bush turned to Social Security and proceeded to make some news. He proposed that the system be made solvent by reducing benefits on a sliding scale, according to income. This utterly responsible and progressive proposition was greeted by phony bleats of outrage from leading Democrats, who proved once again...
Democrats articulated well the up-or-down vote principle in the late 1990s when President Clinton’s nominees faced Republican obstruction, but with the tables turned seem to have forgotten it. One of the chief obstructionists, Patrick Leahy D-VT, said in 1998: “I would object and fight against any filibuster on a judge, whether it is somebody I opposed or supported.” Tom Harkin put it even more bluntly: “[The filibuster process] is used…as blackmail for one Senator to get his or her way on something...