Word: beltways
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...Donald Rumsfeld arrived at the Department of Defense with a reputation as a formidable Beltway get-things-done-er, the only man Henry Kissinger feared facing at the negotiating table. He?d even held the job before. And so when George W. Bush told him to tackle the most overdue job in town - redesigning the military along post-Cold-War lines, and securing the cooperation of Congress and the Pentagon to make it happen - everybody figured Rummy had at least a fighting chance...
...deal to leave town and take the news with them. Congressmen go on recess and head back to their home districts; the White House usually follows suit. And the big-time journalists and pundits that dutifully fill newspapers, magazines, cable channels and web sites with all that familiar Beltway blather have their best chance to skip town without missing too much. (Except for those so desperate to be on television that they won't even schedule a vacation...
...Outside the Beltway, many in the scientific community view the vote with a mixture of resignation and intense frustration. "I think this decision is stupid, and I use that word very deliberately, because I don?t think anyone?s really thought about the issues here," says Greg Pence, a bioethics professor in the medical school at the University of Alabama, Birmingham. "What do people think happens in assisted reproduction? In a population of hopeful parents, it takes hundreds of embryos to successfully create one baby. What do they think happens to those other hundreds of embryos...
DIED. KATHARINE GRAHAM, 84, retired owner of Newsweek and the Washington Post, Beltway socialite and Pulitzer-prizewinning memoirist; of head injuries in a fall; in Boise, Idaho. After taking over the newspaper in 1963 following the death of her husband Philip, Graham guided the Post's transformation into one of the most powerful newspapers in the country, joining the New York Times in its 1971 quest to publish the Pentagon papers and overseeing her paper's history-making pursuit of the Watergate scandal. (See Appreciation, page...
...World. As I grew older and began writing myself, I made it a ritual to read every word, every day. When I went to college, I found myself missing the heft and wit of this capital newspaper. By that time, like any soul who lived and breathed within the Beltway (and an extraordinary number from without), I knew damn well who Katharine Graham was, and what she stood...