Word: catoctin
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...quality that is much in the eye of the beholder. Like pornography, you know it when you see it. Jimmy Carter, whatever his earnest virtues, was seen to be, on the whole, unpresidential - he never recovered from the killer rabbit and the time he collapsed while jogging in the Catoctin Mountains; on the other hand, Carter is splendidly ex-presidential, a category he invented...
...walked down First Avenue as tens of thousands of runners came gasping past - panting, bedraggled, heading toward the finish of the New York Marathon. They looked awful - basket cases pounding along in their underwear. They looked like Jimmy Carter that time he marathoned himself to a frazzle in the Catoctin Mountains near Camp David and had to be helped off by Secret Service agents...
...lofty principle. It's not in an undrawn line in the dry hills of East Jerusalem. It's not even in the hearts or minds of the Israeli and Palestinian leaders meeting since July 11 under the auspices of President Clinton at Camp David in Maryland's secluded Catoctin Mountains. The secret to peace in the Middle East is easy to find--it's scribbled on the loose-leaf paper of a black, flexible-plastic three-ring binder, just like the kind you used in high school. The binder belongs to Dennis Ross...
...11th hour last week, the Palestinian leader and Israeli prime minister decided to remain at the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland's Catoctin Mountains, to see if they could reach an agreement that ended their 52-year-old conflict. An exhausted Bill Clinton flew to Okinawa early Thursday morning to keep his date with the G-8 economic summit, leaving Secretary of State Madeleine Albright behind to see if she could keep the two sides inching closer to an agreement until he returned this coming week...
...much happening, so little to say. Scores of American reporters, as well as a clutch of foreign ones, have decamped to this rural hamlet an hour and a half north of Washington in the Catoctin Mountains to scrape for crumbs of news in the face of a conspiracy of silence among American, Israeli and Palestinian officials. Except for a carefully orchestrated - and tightly controlled - photo op on Day 1, all the reporters have been kept off the secluded grounds of Camp David. Most are eight miles away at the Thurmont Elementary School, where White House spokesman Joe Lockhart takes...