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...future husband Steve Champlin, a lobbyist for the Duberstein Group, but the two didn't really start to get to know each other until they found themselves with time to kill at the Seattle airport after the riotous WTO talks of 1999. Their courtship played out in a uniquely Beltway fashion. She asked him to the White House Millennium Ball. ("Not too much pressure," she laughs.) In less than a year, they were married...
...Klein's column "Will the Real Howard Dean Please Stand Up?" [Jan. 19]: I enjoy Dean's antics. It's rare that we have a candidate for President who says what he really means. Americans in the heartland of the country are sick and tired of Washington's Beltway-speak. Dean addresses issues like health care and aid for higher education. He is a bright light in an otherwise dim slate of candidates. And by the way, not all of Dean's supporters are young. I am a 63-year-old grandmother who has given money to a candidate...
...election campaign is starting to freeze out lesser considerations, as Vaile and Co. are finding out. Trade optimists are about to be mugged by Beltway reality. In Washington, FTAs are not the flavor of the month, nor is there a push to remove entrenched tariffs or subsidies. Some of Zoellick's earlier free-trade deals in the Americas are looking shaky. If the Australian business is not sorted out this week, the negotiations will lapse. Consequently, an FTA won't get through Congress by mid-year, and the election cycle will kill it. If Bush is re-elected, the next...
BLOGGING Those opinionated Web logs this year went from Beltway delicacy to mass-audience fare...
...raise money and organize grass-roots support. (He had been running for more than a year before he hired a pollster.) And as consequential as anything else, he focused his energy outside the political establishment at a time when the top contenders--nearly all of them creatures of the Beltway--believed that big donors, party kingmakers and powerful interest groups were the best assets to have in an overcrowded field...