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...Friday morning, the White House released 148 pages of memos, E-mails, routing slips and other bureaucratic flotsam that painted the clearest picture yet of the courtship between donors and policymakers. For months the White House has denied that the money gushing in from wealthy Asian interests clouded anyone's foreign-policy judgment. Yet the records show that the interests of American foreign policy were sometimes on loan to the President's political fortunes--and fortune hunters...
Hansen's characters are the seven members of the ship's band (their names and histories taken from the author's imagination, not from the crew list). They are a diverse lot, talented and quirky flotsam from England, France, Ireland, Austria, Italy, Russia and perhaps Germany (though none, strangely, from Scandinavia). We get the life stories of several in brooding, inward, coming-of-age chapters. These are effective, though they show signs of emptying the author's notebooks of a lifetime of cherished oddities, including the story that in the 1730s, Russia's Czarina Anna Ivanovna caused...
...reverse defection, Hussein Kamel and his brother piled their families and flotsam pieces of luggage into a convoy of Mercedes and drove to the Jordan-Iraq border. There they were received by Saddam's sons Qusay and Uday, a wanton killer who is Hussein Kamel's sworn enemy. When word of the return reached the West, Madeleine Albright, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and a woman who rarely finds herself at a loss for words, said simply, "I have given up trying to understand the Iraqi elite...
Runaways. They are the refugees from a million private wars being waged across America -- a ragtag army of the abused and the ignored drifting aimlessly like flotsam out of sundered families. Each year as many as 1.3 million teenagers flee home, according to the National Network of Runaway and Youth Services. While the statistics are guesswork, social workers on the front lines perceive a worsening problem. "We're finding that the numbers are going up and the kids are getting younger," says Sister Mary Rose McGeady, president of New York City-based Covenant House. "In Houston the average...
...middle who do okay, who fluorish and grow. Sooner or later, Paul Siemens will go through an experience at Harvard in which he will not be No. 1 and someone else will be. If he can't handle that concept, he'll be crushed, part of the flotsam and jetsam floating aimlessly around campus snarling at all they meet...