Every afternoon he'd launch it from a steep hill near his cliffside home in Sydney and watch, mesmerized, as it caught the updraft from the Pacific Ocean.

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The book deals with a subject Dole on which has been relatively silent: the severe wounds he suffered on a hill near Castel d'Aiano, Italy.

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"This legislation is wise, it has consensus, it brings us together in a bipartisan way, and we are definitely going to leave no veterans behind, " House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California, said during a Capitol Hill rally Tuesday for a new GI Bill.

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Lawmakers in California, the District of Columbia, as well as a handful on Capitol Hill said they intend to fight block 3-D gun printing technology.

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In a forceful but controlled statement to the judge punctuated by occasional raps with her first on the podium, Hill described how she failed to pay taxes during a period when she'd dropped out of the music business to protect herself and her children, who now number six.

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Skelton, D-Missouri, warned Petraeus and Crocker they were staring into a deep well of skepticism and frustration on Capitol Hill.

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