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...LAST THURSDAY, CONGRESSMAN John Boehner took his seat at the head of a conference-room table a few steps from the Rotunda, beneath the Capitol dome. As the fourth-ranking Republican in the House and a field general in the war to pass the "Contract with America," Boehner (pronounced Bay-ner) looked at home. But his lieutenants, who were arrayed around the table strewn with coffee cups and cigarette butts, were not so natural a fit. They were not fellow lawmakers or even congressional staff members. They were lobbyists representing some of the richest special interests in the country. Still...
Frankly, anyone who has eaten in the Freshman Union might think that `Art Free Zones' would be a great idea. The rotunda in the Union has windows instead of art and is rather pleasant. The back room, where, as Bowen describes, "everyone goes to eat alone," accosts its guests with a set of canvases that look like the remains of a food fight started by the original freshman class. No one lingers over their food there...
First-year students this year will be able to stop by the Rotunda of the Freshman Union sometime this spring to learn about security in a setup similar to last fall's Concentration Fair, Nathans said...
...Clinton Administration will join the League of Women Voters in arguing against the law even as the attorney general of the President's home state defends it. "If the Supreme Court upholds the constitutionality of term limits, it will change the political landscape," says Professor Ronald Rotunda of the University of Illinois College of Law. "It will be as important to voting as Brown v. Board of Education was to desegregation...
...says Cleta Deatherage Mitchell, the general counsel for the Term Limits Legal Institute and co-counsel in Bryant v. Hill. "Incumbents have such enormous advantages that it makes the whole notion of competitive elections a mockery," she says. "It almost takes a national temper tantrum to dislodge incumbents." Meanwhile, Rotunda points to the existence of one federal-term limit -- the two terms of the President. "The nation has survived, indeed flourished," he adds. Furthermore, there is another benefit to shorter terms. "When you have open seats, women and minorities have a better chance of getting elected...