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...this kind of revisionist pabulum that had driven me from my job. I explained to the panel that months before, the Secretary's own chief of staff, Ann Bormolini, had at the request of her close personal friend, a ValuJet lobbyist, asked me what I was doing snooping into ValuJet. I told the Senators that in response to this unusual request, I'd written a stern memo outlining what the FAA and my office were doing about ValuJet. Did Pena expect us to believe he had no idea what his chief of staff did every day in the office suite...
...residence. (click here for a video about the raid created by Kurtz's art ensemble.) Agents would not let Kurtz retrieve his cat, Bean. Having lost his wife, his home and his pet in the span of 48 hours, Kurtz decided to get a lawyer. He told a friend at one point, "I just need to pretend Hope is alive so that I can get through this...
...Western capitals. The U.S., which accuses Syria of sponsoring terrorism, led an effort to isolate the country diplomatically and economically. And in a rare instance of Franco-American harmony, France had its own grudge against Syria: the 2005 assassination of Rafik Hariri, the former Lebanese Prime Minister and close friend of former French President Jacques Chirac, an act for which many in the West blamed Syria...
...parents stick out like sore thumbs, but they’re quick learners. When we walk the crowded streets, people run after us trying to sell overpriced trinkets and “real” Coach handbags that they show you only on paper. (“Please friend, come to the backroom to see!") MacDuff, for all his vices, rightfully told us to beware of the “hockers” the first day. (I thought he said “hookers...
WASHINGTON – I’m trying to feel homesick, but it’s hard to miss boredom. “D.C. is Disneyland for political junkies,” a friend once told me, and he’s right. Though the Kingdom of Pelosi isn’t the happiest place on earth – for Republicans, anyway – the city charms like a penny arcade...