Word: hille
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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BOSTON--Amidst Boston's ritzy Beacon Hill, at the corner of neatly-cobbled Joy and Smith Court Streets, sits the oldest standing black church in America, the African Meeting House...
Workers on Capitol Hill barely had time to dismantle the scaffolding for Clinton's second Inauguration before the politics of the next presidential election began getting in the way of business in Congress. With Gephardt staking out positions to the left of Gore on a range of issues, Republicans complain they are suddenly finding Clinton far less accommodating than they had hoped. Even Democrats agree. Not only is the White House gauging g.o.p. reaction to each proposal, says Democratic Senator John Breaux of Louisiana, "they also now have to worry about how much of a real political fight it creates...
...times he, or his bureau, has been less independent than he pretended, which has got him into trouble with Republicans on the Hill as well. First there were charges that the FBI went along with White House requests to investigate employees of its travel office. Then there was the matter of the 900 or so private FBI files on former Republican staff members that turned up in the White House. Critics say any number of FBI officials could have blocked the request for their transfer and didn't. Instead Freeh declared that he felt "victimized" by the White House...
...interested in giving the FBI more power until it gets its house in order and proves that it can live in the boundary of existing laws." That's a long way from the days when the FBI drafted the bills it wanted passed and delivered them to the Hill in plain Manila envelopes...
...This one woman came up to me before Heartbreak Hill and asked if [the last hill] was it," Bowman says. "I felt terrible telling...