Word: gately
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...crime. Gingrich lieutenant majority whip Tom DeLay set up a Monica war room, the first place for the press to call to confirm when Monica delivered that fateful piece of pizza to the Oval Office or the date the fed-up Secret Service agent kept her waiting at the gate in sweltering heat until she looked "like she went a couple of rounds with Muhammad Ali." It was Gingrich who orchestrated the early stages of the impeachment proceedings and who insisted on maximum dissemination of both the Starr report and the tape of Clinton's grand-jury testimony...
...does anything else you, or anyone else in the room, may have to say. A typical night will find upwards of 300 people scattered throughout the most popular palaces, which include South Park, Korn Korner and the original Palace Gate. "We add at least two new rooms every episode," says Tod Foley, who designed and runs South Park for Comedy Central. "Sometimes we go nuts and add six or seven. We look at it like a big online Renaissance fair...
...boarded the shuttle dispiritedly--not because of the umbrellas of passersby, which had jounced against my head as I leaned against the bricks of Johnston Gate, but because of the drizzle that threatened to accumulate into a downpour. "How long do you think this will last?" I asked my friend Brian. "For forty days and forty nights," he replied nonchalantly...
...South Gate's mayor, Henry Gonzalez, did more than a double take. Shortly after the Sanchezes painted their home last September, he dispatched members of his staff to take a census of the city's palette. They discovered not only a discordant aesthetic but a creeping challenge to the ruling monotony: one home is a bright wad of bubble gum; another, a lime daiquiri; and a third can't quite make up its mind (the siding is pumpkin orange, the trim is bright fuchsia, and the door is turquoise). And then there are the shops. A red-and-tangerine party...
...Pollard realized that the FBI was hot on his trail in 1985 because he was suspected of spying for Israel, he fled to Jerusalem's embassy in Washington. Accompanied by his wife Anne and their cat Dusty, he pleaded with Israeli guards for sanctuary after the automatic security gate safely closed behind his 1980 green Mustang, stranding the FBI outside the compound. "Listen! I'm Danny Cohen!" he told the guards, using the false name on his Israeli passport. "It's me, Jonathan Pollard!" But Israeli officials wouldn...