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...month ago, when it seemed things couldn't get any worse, Rumsfeld floated a plan to close dozens of military bases over the next eight years. That proved, if nothing else, that he was serious about cuts, but it was tantamount to declaring war on Capitol Hill. And with that announcement, Rumsfeld reactivated a reserve unit that had outlived its enemy--the secret anti-Clinton operation formed inside the Pentagon in 1993. When Clinton arrived that year and announced his plan to loosen rules on gays in the military, a network sprang up overnight between uniformed officials in the Pentagon...
Officers saluting the Secretary in the corridors of the Pentagon but working behind the scenes to thwart him--this was something that didn't often happen 25 years ago. The CLASSIFIED stamp on Rumsfeld's plan was hardly dry before copies found their way to Capitol Hill. By Aug. 3, it was apparent that lawmakers from both parties would bury any cuts he proposed. Republicans were locked and loaded; Democrats pretended to be sympathetic, just for fun. Says Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island, a former Army officer: "He was sailing into the teeth of a storm everywhere he looked...
...House spokesman Dan Bartlett. It's true that both men let it be known in January that they would only stick around for six months or so. Kress hasn't drawn a government salary, let alone hung pictures on his office walls. But others inside the Administration and on Capitol Hill argue that their departures will cause the balance of power within the White House to shift to the right. "The only two moderates in the place are leaving," says a liberal House Democratic leadership aide who has worked with both men this year. "It doesn't take a rocket...
...Olympic gymnastics team by sacrificing her ankle in a heroic one-legged vault in 1996. Now the gold medalist is sacrificing her summer to rescue the reputation of the country's interns. Strug has been filing, faxing and copying--and nothing else!--for Republican Senator John McCain at his Capitol Hill office. "Thousands of interns come in and go out each summer," says Strug, who graduated from Stanford in June with a communications degree and will return this fall for grad work. "Most people are very professional. Girls just have to be careful. There are risks in every city, every...
...couples are getting married within ceremonial labyrinths. A new outdoor labyrinth at New York City's Trinity Church, at the frenetic intersection of Wall Street and Broadway, is popular with traders from the nearby stock exchanges. A Washington artist had a labyrinth installed on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol for part of the past Lenten season...