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...Brothers Comedy Hour. A former Gore aide named Michela Alioto described the Vice President's management style: "If you had an idea, you'd e-mail it to him, and he'd e-mail his response right back." Now, that's Al Gore. Barbara Mikulski, the earthy Senator from Maryland, described him as a young politician: "If you thought he was tough as a reporter, you shoulda seen him in Congress... He wanted those polluters to pay. And I'll tell you, he was really effective. He wanted to look out for American families...
...Behind the scenes, there were more Kennedys. Representative Patrick Kennedy, one of the party's most prolific fund-raisers, and Maryland lieutenant governor Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, who is reportedly testing the waters for a 2002 gubernatorial campaign, met with news outlets before their kin took the stage. And as they spoke with Larry King et al., the message was clear: A new generation of Kennedys is on the scene - diminished, perhaps, by their distance from the glories of the past - purposeful, committed, and, it would appear, ready for prime time...
...TechNet. Based in Palo Alto, it gives campaign donations in roughly equal proportions to Republicans and Democrats and serves as a clearinghouse for information and policy proscriptions about the new economy. But Chuck Manatt's pleading and Mark Bisnow's bus tour persuaded the upstart firms in Virginia and Maryland to band together to give TechNet a run for its PAC money. Led by AOL, Washington-area tech companies formed CapNet last summer to serve as TechNet's echo on the East Coast. It operates much like TechNet except lawmakers don't have to fly across the continent to pick...
...absolutely the No. 1 tech reporter in Washington," says Christie Hart, marketing manager at the Draper Atlantic venture-capital firm in Reston, Va. "She takes all the high-tech jargon, the acronyms, the slang, and makes it readable and understandable." Born in New York City and raised in Maryland, Henry studied English at Boston University and got a master's degree in journalism and public policy from American University in Washington. Five years into the tech beat, she has been listed by the prestigious Washington Business Forward magazine as one of the Top 40 agenda setters and market movers...
...claims a little further. (More men have been spotted buying antiaging creams, but the market is overwhelmingly female.) With open minds and a certain degree of self-interest, we contacted the major cosmetics firms and talked to biochemists, physiologists and dermatologists. We even commissioned the Chemir/Polytech Laboratories of Maryland Heights, Mo., to analyze 10 different products to see how much antiaging agent they contained...