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...some very heated arguments," says Senate Budget chairman Pete Domenici of the months of intense negotiations in his Capitol hideaway. "But this was big adult men knowing we had something to do." Before it was over, the can-do spirit in the negotiating room had grown so heady that Kasich, 44, reached over to hug Gene Sperling, Clinton's 38-year-old national economic adviser. "C'mon, Gene!" cried the gung-ho Kasich. "Let's do it for our generation...
Sometimes," President Bill Clinton mused on Friday afternoon, "there is a difference between what is legal and what ought to be done." And with that he offered a guided tour of Washington's favorite hideaway--the fertile, foggy valley that lies somewhere between what is wrong and what is illegal. You don't have to be a lawyer to get in, but it helps to think like...
From the time the marble drops to the moment the cage falls, the audience is whisked through a fiendishly crafted visual space; past impossibly large buildings, into an underwater hideaway, around grotesque human caricatures, and into a surreal world that is both futuristic and strangely ancient. Shot entirely in the studio, the film sports some of the most incredible sets in recent memory. Often enhanced by computer imaging, the whole setting has an eerie pre-fabricated feel that is akin to today's high-tech electronic games. The influence of Terry Gilliam is apparent, since the style of visuals...
...Committee's unanimous, bipartisan call for his expulsion. He took to the airwaves, decrying the charges against him of sexual and official misconduct and vowing that his decision to fight on was irrevocable. But then certain lights came on. At 12:30 p.m. Packwood slipped into his second-floor hideaway in the Capitol Building to confer with two of his staunchest defenders, Republican Senators Alan Simpson of Wyoming and John McCain of Arizona. Gently, but persistently, his colleagues delivered a firm message: this has got to end. Twenty minutes into the meeting, majority leader Robert Dole joined the session...
...Senate veranda -- the tan he works hard on, says a Senator, is his "secret weapon." Dole admits to putting "a little stuff'' on his hair to keep out the gray, although he insists he does not color his eyebrows. And he sometimes slips off to his new hideaway near his office for a nap on a couch that Dole nabbed when Senator Howard Metzenbaum retired last year...