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...press, the agency asked for a few more days to shore up lingering questions about Lee. The paper ran the story anyway. Though it did not name Lee, the article set off a frenzy of finger pointing. The next morning, two FBI agents showed up on Lee's doorstep brandishing a copy of the Times piece and mentioning the Rosenbergs' fate. Soon Lee's name was linked everywhere to the Times article as the "suspected Chinese spy"--nowhere more prominently than on the Times's editorial page, which lamented the Administration's "lackadaisical" treatment of the case and questioned National...
...however, the danger is immediate and considerable: Not only has she raised questions about her commitment to a soft-money ban by hedging over the agreement, she's allowed Lazio to hijack an issue she once controlled. Lazio met her demands, gathered those signatures, and showed up at her doorstep like a proud cat presenting a hard-won mouse to its horrified owner...
Several years ago, recalls HUPD officer Louis Favreaux, unruly students threw beer bottles on the doorstep of then-Lowell House Master William H. Bossert...
...Washington Monument. It's only fitting that the office of Oliver Carr, the city's premier bricks-and-mortar developer for the past 40 years, now belongs to James V. Kimsey, co-founder of America Online and the guy who brought the new economy to Washington's doorstep by keeping AOL in his hometown. He entered the high-tech world in the early '80s when he became chief executive of Control Video Corp., an interactive-games company. Then Kimsey hired a kid from Pizza Hut named Steve Case. In 1985 he and Case started Quantum Computer Services, the company that...
...smile, or shaken Gore's hand with more vigor, Bradley's not that kind of guy, and he isn't about to start playing the game now. His speech meandered through a checklist of old-school Democratic mantras (funding social programs, ending discrimination) before it arrived on Gore's doorstep with a deafening thump. "I want to make it clear," he intoned, in case there was any confusion as to why he was standing there, "that I endorse Al Gore for president of the United States...