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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...look for a night's stay at several of the city's grandest hotels. The elegant Hotel Adlon, for instance, which reopened last year, says it long ago finished taking bookings for 1999's New Year's Eve. Still, many leading hotels continue to have available gala packages that offer everything from champagne breakfasts and elegant banquets to candle-light dinners and late-night excursions around the city. The Hilton features a party for youths, with games, swimming, a kids' buffet and--most essential for guests who are celebrating with their children and grandchildren who are five or older--hotel...
...push prices still higher. A double room at the Eden Hotel, whose superb terrace restaurant has a breathtaking view of the city, will start at $685 a night, with a minimum of a week's stay required. The many nunneries and pensions in and around the city, however, still offer accommodations for less than $100 a night...
...season's fund-raising circuit. More than 200 Oregonians paid $250 each to Wu's underfinanced campaign to hear the First Lady declare over lunch, "We need to change the Congress!" The biggest favor Clinton did for Wu was to remind Democrats there is an election coming up and offer them a rationale for voting in a year when turnout promises to set a record low. Even in Oregon, where mail-in balloting makes voting convenient, two-thirds of those registered sat out the May primary. "This is the least interested electorate in my 20 years of polling," says independent...
...smoke and mirrors," said Rep. Tim Roemer (D-Ind.) of the House Science Committee. "What NASA has done is to propose a leveraged buyout of the Russian Space Agency." Wednesday's Science Committee meeting on the subject is likely to be ugly; Goldin would do well to offer free gifts and a money-back guarantee...
...couple of caveats for would-be Washington millionaires: The six-zero sum gets paid out only when and if Hustler publishes your salacious story, and Flynt reserves the right to shift the deadline forward. Assuming he doesn't, however, the offer expires on May 1, 1999 -- which gives money-hungry Monicas everywhere plenty of time to initiate the affair and get the photos developed. Interns, start your engines...