Many observers say Elizabeth Dole's Southern charm and graceful appearance -- she long ago earned the nickname ``Sugar Lips'' for her ability to diplomatically deal with difficult situations -- have helped her bring combative sides together and foster Red Cross fund raising. Some say they also could help in a presidential race.
WASHINGTON -- Hoping to light a fire under House Speaker Dennis Hastert and members of the Senate, a bipartisan group of congressmen led by Rep.…
WASHINGTON -- A Duke psychiatrist is at the front of a national push to shed light on a debilitating disorder that causes millions of Americans…
WASHINGTON -- From Union Station's newsstands to the city's corner drugstores, John Edwards' face stares out at Washingtonians from the cover of Capital Style magazine, so large that his senatorial pores can be counted like beans. "Building the Perfect Senator," the headline reads. "John Edwards is rich and rugged. But is he ready?" The answer is, he'd better be.
WASHINGTON -- When 1999's largest sporting event hits the Triangle for nine days this summer, it might seem natural to expect crowded stores, packed restaurants,…
Continue reading → Games aim to boost goodwill, not area coffers
WASHINGTON -- Although the outcome was clear long before the final roll call, Friday's historic impeachment vote was more than an exercise in statesmanship for…
WASHINGTON -- They are the personal research librarians for members of Congress, and Rep. David Price wants you to be able to check them out.
WASHINGTON -- The city of Durham has won a $2.4 million federal grant to alleviate lead poisoning among low-income children living in private housing, the…
WASHINGTON -- It has more pages than ``War and Peace,'' more tables than a Martha Stewart guide to entertaining and a price tag larger than…
WASHINGTON -- President Clinton's proposed $7.2 billion Environmental Protection Agency budget includes the nearly $50 million still needed to complete construction and tackle initial startup…
Continue reading → Clinton sets $50M aside for EPA’s complex
WASHINGTON -- In what may be the smallest gym he's performed in since his high school days in Wilmington, Michael Jordan unveiled one of his retirement plans Friday: a $5 million program that will give teachers of disadvantaged students money for new equipment and new programs.
WASHINGTON -- The freshman Democrat from North Carolina on Friday was chosen to represent his party in the House prosecutors' deposition of Monica Lewinsky. Edwards is the youngest of the three Democrats and three Republicans tapped to serve as presiding officers during the testimony of Lewinsky, Clinton confidante Vernon Jordan and White House aide Sidney Blumenthal.
WASHINGTON -- Hoping to end almost two decades of uncertainty, a bipartisan group of lawmakers that includes Rep. David Price plans to push Congress to…
Continue reading → Price part of effort to set R&D temporary tax credit in stone
WASHINGTON -- Rep. David Price says he's worried the partisan House rancor that surrounded the Clinton impeachment trial may leave Congress split and stymied, regardless…
Continue reading → Price frets over impeachment trial’s effect on key initiatives
WASHINGTON -- Rep. Bob Etheridge accused the Clinton administration Thursday of "piling on" tobacco farmers with a proposal to raise the federal tax on cigarettes…
WASHINGTON -- At an entrance to the Capitol building across from the U.S. Supreme Court, the public was expected to cluster this morning, clutching blue…
WASHINGTON -- The first thing you notice about Sen. John Edwards' temporary office space is the carpeting. The squares of stained fabric, hop-scotched together in…
Continue reading → Freshman John Edwards settling into Senate’s last Spartan quarters
WASHINGTON -- North Carolina's public schools received high marks in a national accountability study released this week by Education Week magazine. ``Quality Counts '99,'' an…
Continue reading → N.C. review system makes mark on Durham schools
WASHINGTON -- Elizabeth Edwards huddled, tired but happy, among family members in a car on the Senate subway, reflecting on the travails of being the mother of a suddenly very well-known 8-month-old girl. "You go to the grocery store with a baby, it's more complicated," she said. "Your husband gets sworn in as senator and you bring the baby, it's more complicated."
Beth McNichol 