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...Beltway calls the sort of public relations pounding Microsoft has taken in recent months "getting Borked," in honor of the partisan drubbing that kept Judge Robert Bork off the Supreme Court. So it was acutely ironic that the person doing the Borking last week was Judge Bork...
...result? Some of the Beltway's most bold-faced names have waded, often blindly, into the fray. Bork's surprising initiation into the regulatory camp took place at a press conference introducing the Project to Promote Competition Innovation in the Digital Age, a group of Microsoft rivals that will pursue its lofty goal by urging the authorities to sue Bill Gates' pants off. ProComp, as it's called, will have help navigating D.C.'s treacherous lobbying shoals from ex-Senator and Visa pitchman Bob Dole as well as from such heavy hitters as ex-Federal Trade Commissioner Christine Varney...
Just last year, the Institute of Politics' (IOP) Summer In Washington Program (SIWP) brought Harvard undergrads working in D.C. to the offices of beltway bigwigs like Supreme Court Justice Antonin G. Scalia, politico James Carville and Deputy Chief of Staff Sylvia Matthews for a series of informal gatherings and speeches...
...busy ignoring William Ginsburg's fairly ridiculous (and quite un-lawyerly) comment about facts and law being "always subordinated to the will of the American people," Washington's real subordinates -- politicians in an election year -- were struggling to find their footing now that "End the probe" is the Beltway's most popular...
...butter note, a valentine to her host, the President, written in the prose of a Harlequin romance: she sees "a man in a dinner jacket with more heat than any star in the room...his height, his sleekness, his newly cropped, iron-filing hair." Forget, wrote Brown, "all the Beltway halitosis breathed upon his image...the neo-puritanism of the op-ed tumbrel drivers." Instead, say yes to the electrical, existential Now of Bill Clinton: "He is vividly in the present tense and dares you to join him there...