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...Schlesinger] is the kind of presidential appointee who has a highly resistible appeal to the pragmatic politicians on Capitol Hill, who must measure what should be done against the practicalities of what can be done," wrote Jack Anderson in a unfavorable column in The Washington Post...
...overlap (a red flag for competition-minded regulators) than the neatly complementary maps of United and US Airways. And United is divesting what little there is, at Washington's Reagan Airport, creating DC Air and handing it to BET mogul Robert Johnson in a little backyard lobbying of the Capitol crowd. But even that merger will get a very close look from the Justice Department, Congress, even the Europeans - not to mention the unions involved - and some analysts are giving it no better than a 50-50 shot at consummation. So American probably figures it can tip those odds...
...cease-fire had begun. Helms reciprocated by inviting the Security Council representatives to the U.S. Capitol this spring. The 15 ambassadors sat politely as Helms delivered a civics lecture on Congress's role in U.S. foreign policy. Some doodled on notepads, but the Senator was glowing. "I think Jesse has decided he doesn't want his legacy just being obstruction," Biden suggests. After council president Anwarul Karim Chowdhury of Bangladesh larded him with praise, Helms buttonholed Holbrooke: "If Bangladesh wants anything from me, they can have...
...maybe you're just blind to it." Perhaps, but the Elian Gonzalez debacle and the argument trumpeted in support of the China trade bill that trade is a weapon against repression may actually have helped to swell the ranks of the "blind" on both sides of the aisle on Capitol Hill...
...economies, all the wired communities that make up our worldwide webs; those in Chechnya, Kosovo or Rwanda remind us of much older forces. And even as America exports its dotcom optimism around the world, many other countries export their primal animosities to America. Get in a cab near the Capitol, say, or the World Trade Center and ask the wrong question, and you are likely to hear a tirade against the Amhara or the Tigreans, Indians or Pakistanis. If all the world's a global village, that means that the ancestral divisions of every place can play out in every...