Word: beltways
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Tennis Experience: Varsity in high school. Has played consistently since then; a star of the Beltway tennis circuit when he lived in Washington DC. Hits with the Harvard men’s and women’s teams...
When Alan J. Stone, a veteran of decades worth of Beltway battles, arrived at Mass. Hall as Harvard’s new Vice President for Government, Community and Public Affairs, he wasn’t exactly new to politics...
...Police arrest two suspects in the Beltway sniper shootings, ending three weeks of terror in the Washington metro area...
Pundit fatigue: rarely seen inside the Beltway. Too bad the only known cure is being married to a Vice President. Having transcended argument for its own sake, she dropped a controversial book project on academia in favor of writing one for children, America: A Patriotic Primer ("A is for America, the land that we love; B is for the Birthday of this nation of ours"). Scribbled in the margins of newspapers during the 2000 campaign, it's as uncontroversial as you can get, although, no doubt, a few colleagues from her old life would find "N is for Native Americans...
...perseverance turns a flap into a crisis. What this episode is about is far more than another Beltway gaffe. It's quite simply about the soul of the Republican Party. For decades, since the Republicans became the repository for some white Southern resentment of the civil rights era, the G.O.P. has walked a delicate line between legitimate support for small government and strong defense of and illegitimate reliance on racial resentments. In the past five years or so, there has been a welcome and clear attempt to grapple more directly with the question of race. Figures like Ward Connerly...