Word: potomac
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...tells us we are not so powerful and we can't be safe. The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, planted at the base of Manhattan island with the Statue of Liberty as their sentry, and the Pentagon, a squat, concrete fort on the banks of the Potomac, are the sanctuaries of money and power that our enemies may imagine define us. But that assumes our faith rests on what we can buy and build, and that has never been America's true...
...tells us we are not so powerful and we can't be safe. The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, planted at the base of Manhattan island with the Statue of Liberty as their sentry, and the Pentagon, a squat, concrete fort on the banks of the Potomac, are the sanctuaries of money and power that our enemies may imagine define us. But that assumes our faith rests on what we can buy and build, and that has never been America's true...
...increased security, no heightened alert around the Capitol for fully half an hour after the New York attack. Senate minority leader Trent Lott was drafting a press release to condemn the attack when he looked outside his window and saw black smoke billowing up from across the Potomac. He didn't wait for an evacuation order. He gathered up his top staff and security detail and headed out of the Capitol, shocked to find that tourists were still walking into the building while he was fleeing...
...growing in high schools as well: more than two-thirds of the nation's several hundred thousand lacrosse players are under age 17. "I've been playing soccer since I was six, and I needed a change," says Kara Takesuye, a junior at the Bullis High School in Potomac...
...Broder's nose for "a broad and strong constituency" may be right; after all, here's a man who's been around Washington longer than the Potomac. And matching new programs directly against the public pocketbook would certainly prick up a few voter ears. But there's already a "broad and strong constituency" for economy in government, along with one for campaign finance reform, a cleaner environment, improving the nation's schools and ending poverty, and look where that's gotten the voters. That's why only half of them vote...