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When Glickman replaces Valenti in September, he said he plans to use Beltway connections and know-how accumulated over a life of public service to “push a bipartisan legislative agenda through...

Author: By Simon W. Vozick-levinson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Glickman Named MPAA Director | 7/2/2004 | See Source »

...Democrats. The greatest tribute to a president's political impact is the adoption of his most popular ideas by his opponents - and when President Clinton spoke of ending the era of "big government" and reforming welfare, he knew full well that those ideas were brought into the Beltway by President Reagan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ronald Reagan, 1911-2004 | 6/5/2004 | See Source »

Forget gas prices and the war. A drowsy 13-year-old is the campaign story consuming the Beltway. A Late Show with David Letterman segment called "George W. Bush Invigorates America's Youth," which aired last week, showed TYLER CROTTY, the son of a Bush donor, fidgeting, yawning and checking his watch as the President gave a lengthy speech in Orlando, Fla., last month. CNN reported--incorrectly--that the White House claimed Crotty had been edited into the video. Letterman denied the tape was doctored, CNN apologized, and the White House (which apparently hasn't enough to do) helped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sleeper Hit | 4/12/2004 | See Source »

BUZZ Political analyst Kevin Phillips' attack on the "old-boy network" that created the Bush political "dynasty" was hailed by Beltway Bush bashers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reading Material | 4/5/2004 | See Source »

Before Aristide left Haiti last month, his government spent more than $1 million a year on an army of U.S. lawyers and lobbyists. (Nations of similar population and economic means, like Cambodia, typically spend less than a tenth as much on Beltway lobbyists.) Many of the recipients of Aristide's funds, like former California Congressman Ron Dellums, have close ties to the black congressional caucus, which has accused Bush of engineering a "coup" against Aristide. The ousted President's supporters say the largesse was necessary: the Clinton and Bush Administrations withheld $500 million in aid for Haiti as retribution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lobbying War For Haiti | 3/22/2004 | See Source »

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