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Schwartz spent last summer as a White House intern and interned on Capitol Hill in previous years...
...among some of the more hard-line ethnic-Albanian nationalists unhappy with the outcome in Kosovo, he hasn't had much access, and although they're Muslims, Albanian culture doesn't easily lend itself to Bin Laden's fundamentalist brand of Islam." But the undertow of discontent on Capitol Hill about the open-ended U.S. troop commitment in the troubled region may be prompting Washington to turn over every rock, just in case...
...paramilitaries have been a useful tool for those elements pursuing a "dirty war" against civilians suspected of supporting the guerrillas. Widely documented instances of the military's arming, training, organizing, equipping and sharing intelligence with the paramilitaries - and of those same paramilitaries gleefully massacring civilians - fueled resistance on Capitol Hill to an aid package supporting the armed forces...
...After all, the President managed in 1996 to break the Republican electoral hold on Florida in part by ignoring the advice of his own foreign policy team and signing into law the Helms-Burton Act, an anti-Cuba legislative package sponsored by two of the most conservative legislators on Capitol Hill. But Clinton's move came amid the nationwide revulsion over the shooting down by Cuban MiGs of an unarmed plane flown over Cuba by exile activists; America appears considerably less enthusiastic about a political campaign over a six-year...
...polls appear to reflect a growing concern among voters: whether either candidate is capable of working with others, a trait seen as essential to being effective on Capitol Hill. Since his Senate run was first mooted, Democrats have painted Giuliani as a dictatorial mayor who may be able to keep crime rates low and the trains running on time, but who would be a disaster in any position that required teamwork. Meanwhile, in recent weeks the GOP has tried to paint the First Lady in a similar light. They point to the new book "The Case Against Hillary Clinton...