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...Diana McLellan, who built quite a career on high-level gossip (she wrote "The Ear" column for the Washington Star and the Washington Post and then "Diana Hears" for the Washington Times), has quit after a decade of nibbling her way to the top. "Gossip is now on the front pages," she says wistfully. An amateur artist as well as a wordsmith, she has gone on to paint and write novels...
...paté. Diana could spin one delicious backbite like that into a column. Now, she says, the absolute, ultimate social event in Western civilization is the small dinner given by Ronnie and Nancy in the private quarters. The one coming up for Britain's Charles and his Diana will, in McLellan's view, elevate the 80 participants to social sainthood...
...McLellan judges that the level of lavish outlay reached its peak in the third year of the Reagan Administration. Probably never in U.S. history had so much been spent on caterers, limousines and designer gowns in pursuit of influence. There also was a great self-beautification movement. "When you go out now you barely see a nose you know," says McLellan. "They are deeply concerned with their exteriors...
...rest of the country takes part," declares McLellan. The jets bring a lot of Americans in directly--businessmen, entertainers, what not. The others can watch on TV, and that creates an open forum of national opinion that restrains bad taste or misbehavior...
...focus of much of Wednesday's summit was the need to launch a Palestinian "war on terror," and if Hamas won't come quietly the U.S. and Israel will expect Abbas to act forcefully to, in the words of White House spokesman Scott McLellan, "dismantle the infrastructure of terror." It's far from clear that Abbas has sufficient means even if he had the political will to go to war with Hamas. His security services remain weak and dispersed, and may be weaker on the ground than the militant groups in different parts of the West Bank and particularly Gaza...