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...Senators, Chuck Schumer. There, as Schumer put it, she "chimed in." Then last week, some pro-Israeli activists publicly urged her to seek the freedom of convicted spy Jonathan Pollard. And G.O.P. Congressman Thomas Reynolds wants her to take on the Justice Department over Cayuga Indian claims in the Finger Lakes area. Meanwhile, she has not heard the last from Puerto Rico: its New York allies are asking the First Lady to weigh in on a half-century-long dispute over Navy bombardment of a tiny island off the commonwealth's east coast...
Since there are no "real" people in the Hamptons, the working part of Hillary's working vacation will be this week, when she retreats to the Finger Lakes, where voters who don't use summer as a verb are known to congregate. For months, Hillary debated whether she should spend her entire vacation upstate and unchic to convince Empire State voters that she's no carpetbagger. Remember how former adviser Dick Morris persuaded the pair four years ago to give up their beloved Vineyard because polling found it insufficiently American? Enough with the sailboats and James Taylor crooning...
...country club (4), but buying cigars at the Havana Trading Co. (5) could be politically sensitive, and the town has--horrors!--no McDonald's. Chelsea can pop into Hairtique (6) or Yankee Clipper (7) for a new do, or she can water-ski on Skaneateles' finger lake (8)--supposedly the cleanest in the continental U.S. Alas, the town's short- and fat-man race is no more. But if the town gets too much, Syracuse--which has more voters--is just 19 miles away...
...North Korea is expected to test-launch a ballistic missile that could finger the very outer edges of America. Which isn't to say that anyone thinks Pyongyang will blast Anchorage anytime soon, but just testing that kind of missile--and then putting it up for sale on the international arms market--is enough to make huge swaths of the world very nervous. It's a perfect setup for high-priced extortion, and last week diplomats were struggling: Do we let the North Koreans launch, or can we buy them off? On the brink of collapse and with its people...
That includes wacky Uncle "Pull my finger" Bud. "You've gained weight!" he'll say by way of greeting. You will engage in long conversations with people you've never met, about people you'll never meet...