In the month leading up to last year's presidential election, local television stations in big cities devoted eight times as much air time to car crashes and other accidents than to campaigns for the House of Representatives, state senate, city hall and other local offices, according to a new study to be released tomorrow.
Amid the ruins of the ancient metropolis, a visitor could see a temple, an almost perfect amphitheater which was uncovered in 1952 under heaps of sand, an imposing arch of triumph with requisite road leading through it, a senate building, a banquet hall, a funerary temple and seemingly endless rows of columns representing once-noted buildings.
Later that day Ryan Grim, the Washington bureau chief for the Huffington Post, approached Senator Kelly Ayotte in the halls of the senate to ask her if Brown had pressured her to "slow down" the bill.
By Andy Borowitz December 30 , 2012WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) — Howls of protest filled the halls of the U.S. Senate today as dozens of Senators expressed their outrage at having to work through the weekend to save the United States from financial Armageddon.
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Howls of protest filled the halls of the U.S. Senate today as dozens of Senators expressed their outrage at having to work through the weekend to save the United States from financial Armageddon.
"So," Bobby said, when they encountered one another in the halls of the senate one day.
Along its left side are a succession of important public buildings: the curia, or town hall, where the local senate met; the comitium, an assembly hall, where elections were held; the capitolium, a temple believed to have been dedicated to the capitoline triad of Jupiter, Juno and Minerva; and a second set of baths, for private, or noble, use.
In the federal election of 1974, it succeeded in having Hall elected to the Australian Senate with a primary vote of 10 per cent in South Australia.
