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...marks a triumphant fulfillment of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's promise in August that she and O'Connor would help their male colleagues "look at life a bit differently." (Ginsburg wrote a brief concurrence, her first writing on the high bench.) Says law professor Susan Deller Ross, head of Georgetown University's Sex Discrimination Clinic: "This illustrates the merits of diversity. Men have not typically undergone a barrage of verbal abuse about their sexuality as a condition of having a job. I think they have a very difficult time understanding the impact of that." The seven men on the Supreme...
...Washington premiere last Wednesday night of The War Room, the new documentary about last year's Clinton campaign, but that's probably because many of those watching were too choked up by the memories, and their own performances. About half the audience at the Key theater in Georgetown were veterans of the campaign, and half of those were on-screen. Paul Begala, James Carville's partner, wiped away a tear as he watched the scene in which he is a voice speaking from the campaign plane to his spiritual twin on the ground in Little Rock, Arkansas, George Stephanopoulos...
...budget, then struggled to win its approval. On June 30, while biking home, Thompson stopped on Memorial Bridge over the Potomac and proposed. The Tuscany trip would be a honeymoon. The two, each marrying for the first time, would leave for Italy Sept. 11, after their wedding in Georgetown. When Congress recessed Aug. 7, White House sources pushed the target back to mid-September. Tuscany was out, so the couple planned a honeymoon weekend in a Virginia 18th century countryside...
...P.L.O. Executive Committee member Abu Mazin. But at 7 p.m. Friday the Palestinians told State Department officials that Arafat would head their delegation. Dennis Ross, the State Department's special coordinator for the Middle East, immediately called Warren Christopher, who was having drinks with reporters at his house in Georgetown. Christopher ducked into a side room to take the call; after the reporters left, Christopher called Clinton...
...launched one more conference call with his top health-care advisers on June 22. From the Governor's mansion in Little Rock, he reached Magaziner at a miniature-golf course near his home in Providence, Rhode Island, where he was relaxing with his children. He located Bruce Reed at Georgetown University Hospital, where his own health-care bill was rising while his wife was undergoing tests for a stomach ailment. He found Joshua Wiener, a Brookings Institution fellow, clipping hedges at his home in Washington. Wiener grabbed some of his kids' purple-dinosaur scratch paper and, at his kitchen table...