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...Where Is Emily Post When You Need Her? Seating arrangements replaced menus as the main journalist focus. When White House spokesman Joe Lockhart disclosed that Barak, Arafat and Clinton all sat at the same table for dinner, the world had to know who was talking to whom. Lockhart carefully recounted, "Each was separated by two or three people at least...
...conferences back in Washington. But the White House drew the line when Limor Livnat, a member of the Likud party, which opposes Barak, showed up to lobby reporters in the press center and complain about what she thought Barak was doing. She was firmly ushered out of the building. Lockhart said she and others could talk to reporters. "We just prefer they not do it here...
...silence among American, Israeli and Palestinian officials. Except for a carefully orchestrated - and tightly controlled - photo op on Day 1, all the reporters have been kept off the secluded grounds of Camp David. Most are eight miles away at the Thurmont Elementary School, where White House spokesman Joe Lockhart takes the podium once or twice a day to release no information of substance, except that everyone's working hard and peace is difficult. His most recent appearance included this Delphic pronouncement: "It means something to us, but I'm not going to get into what it means...
...lines between fiction and reality. They went to the White House to have their pictures taken with their real-life counterparts, stopped at the New York Times's Washington bureau, and Allison Janney, the 6-ft. actress who plays press secretary C.J. Cregg, stood on the podium to open Lockhart's midday briefing. The show even got a validating blast from Republican House leader Tom DeLay, who--while admitting he's never watched it--declared it displays "disdain for [religious] faith." A cheap shot, ripostes Sorkin, about a violence-free series that idealizes public service...
...life-imitates-art moments have become more commonplace. Last month, while sitting in the Oval Office monitoring a briefing session with Clinton and his Mideast advisers, chief of staff John Podesta jokingly slipped a note to Lockhart that read, "If this were West Wing, C.J. wouldn't be at this meeting." NBC has realized that the show's verisimilitude can pay off. Because of its edu-content, teachers have given the show high marks, and NBC has distributed West Wing study guides to high schools. Sorkin says he's already looking to hire some conservatives--to give the scripts...