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...license and regulate companies that host poker games online--a move, they note, that would actually raise money for the Treasury. John Pappas, the group's executive director, says online poker could generate from $2 billion to $3 billion in tax receipts. Not many special pleaders on Capitol Hill have that card to play. Several lawmakers, including Massachusetts Democrat Barney Frank, are happy to respond with pro-gambling bills...
...says the latter.One of the group’s earliest and most infamous practices was their nighttime trips to serenade the young ladies of the Boston area.According to a Time Magazine article from March 29, 1943, their lantern-lit jaunts took Pierian members from Brattle Street to Beacon Hill. The HRO website quotes orchestra records from 1840:“It came to pass in the reign of Simon the King, that the Pierians did meet in the tabernacle. And lo! A voice was heard saying, Let us go serenading and they lifted up their voice...
...Obey is also known on Capitol Hill for his mercurial temper. He once famously got into a shoving match with former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay on the floor of the House and this spring was dubbed "Mount Obey" by Politico, a daily Hill newspaper and political website, because of an eruption at anti-war Democrat Dennis Kucinich for asking what Obey deemed a dumb question...
With the police and the National Guard blocking off the main roads, the friends snuck in through "dirt roads and stuff like that," says Gudim. At one point, Samuels and his friends saw firefighters battling a fire that had snaked up and down one hill. They saw a eucalyptus tree a few hundred yards away suddenly burst into flame. "Wow, did you see that?" they said to each other...
...next morning, I drove up the hill toward my house, and I was shocked by the devastation. The whole neighborhood was charred. It looked like a wind tunnel of fire had gone through. By daylight I saw that only five houses on my side of the street were O.K. I called three of my neighbors at 6 a.m. and told them their houses were OK. They choked up. The house directly across from ours had completely burned to the ground...