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The key to Milosevic's rule is located in the corridors of an imposing steel-and-glass building on Belgrade's Knez Milos Street. It is here that one can find the office of Jovica Stanisic, the most powerful man in Serbia after the President. As a deputy of Serbia...
--State Department spokesperson and Red Sox fan Nicholas Burns in a media briefing yesterday, issuing a tongue-in-cheek denouncement of Clemens' recent signing with the Toronto Blue Jays. Clemens' new three-year, $24.75 million contract makes him the highest paid pitcher in history.
White House spokesman Mike McCurry is a genial guy. So maybe he was just being genial when he laughed off questions last week concerning the whereabouts of John Huang, the suddenly infamous former Democratic fund raiser. Huang, who steered cash to party coffers from the billionaire Riadys of Indonesia, had...
In true Dole fashion, though, the candidate did not communicate any explicit decision, and so meetings, memos and all kinds of frenzied activity continued. As late as August 1, Dole asked aides to rerun the numbers on no fewer than eight different proposals. "We went over this ground months ago...
But, like the plot and the humor, the format will only work for the Beltway-savvy. If you haven't seen a White House briefing and aren't familiar with popular press figures, it's hard to play along. Likewise, many of the jokes and comments about various scandals and...