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...time Madeleine Albright sinks into a wicker chair at a corner table in a quiet Georgetown restaurant, the circles under her eyes are dark and deep. She's running an hour late; she's skipped a reception at the Czech embassy. Her ambassador in Paris is dying. It has been a long day. The Merlot comes in a big glass...
Albright took her years of experience at the White House and Senate and turned herself into one of the most popular professors at Georgetown's School of Foreign Service. Many of her fellow professors, especially in the blue-blooded government department, may have looked down on her for her thin academic credentials. But the students loved her. "She was like a pied piper," says Peter Krogh, the dean who hired her. "Students flocked to her." They would vote her the best teacher in the School of Foreign Service for a record four years...
...welcome intermissions from the classroom, in which she served as a foreign policy adviser and broadened her connections in the party. But there were three other critically important training outlets as well, whose imprint would become more apparent as she moved closer to the prize. The first was the Georgetown Leadership Seminar, an invention of Henry Kissinger's back when he was an ambitious young Harvard professor trying to make connections with up-and-comers around the world. Each summer about 75 government officials, lawyers, bankers, journalists and military officers from all over the world were invited to Georgetown...
...three decades since their wartime affair, Harriman had run twice for President, been elected Governor of New York and served as a top adviser to Presidents John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. Before his death in 1986, he encouraged Pamela to launch her own political-action committee and turn their Georgetown mansion into a political think tank where party officials and donors gathered to discuss issues over meals served by black-tied butlers. "PamPAC," as some called her Democrats for the '80s committee, raised $10 million for party coffers. A one-day fund raiser in 1992 at her Middleburg, Virginia, estate...
NANCY GIBBS was having dinner in a Georgetown restaurant with Madeleine Albright last week only a few hours before the world learned that her parents were Jewish and that some of her relatives had perished in the Holocaust. Soon she would have to face questions that were personal and painful. "It is a measure of Albright's diplomatic training," says Gibbs, "that she was able to get through a two-hour dinner without betraying much outward sign of all that she was juggling." While the two women covered a wide range of subjects, Albright's press aide, Jamie Rubin...