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Dana Perino knows how to elicit a partisan response. In 1998 at the height of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, she trained her Hungarian hunting dog, Henry, to bark when asked, "Should Clinton go to jail?" He growls when you say, "Al Gore," and retrieves a flip-flop when you mention John Kerry. To those critics who say the White House press corps has been conditioned to respond meekly to the Bush Administration, such skills might seem to make her a fitting replacement for Tony Snow, who stepped down as White House press secretary on Sept. 14. But after just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dana Perino and the Attack Dogs | 10/18/2007 | See Source »

However minor this second miracle may seem, if validated it will probably prove less problematic than Teresa's first. In that case, an Indian woman named Monica Besra reported that she had prayed for the Mother's assistance and been cured of an abdominal tumor. However, members of Besra's medical staff and her husband maintained that her cure could have been brought about by the conventional medical treatment she was receiving. Besra has subsequently complained to the press that after Teresa's beatification the Missionaries abandoned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mother Teresa and the Kidney Stone | 10/5/2007 | See Source »

...something about Obama was different. Monica wrenched her knee just before the 2004 Democratic Convention and was forced to watch it on TV as her husband--who produced all of the convention's official buttons--toiled behind the scenes. She called Baltes immediately after Obama's keynote speech. "Did you hear that?" Monica gushed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign Briefing | 9/27/2007 | See Source »

...kept coming, at a rate of 1,000 an hour through the weekend. Baltes, 58, who owns and runs the campaign-paraphernalia company Tigereye Design, has made pins, hats, T shirts and key chains for every Democratic presidential candidate (and a few Republicans) since 1976. Baltes and his wife Monica started out making pins out of their bedroom, working all night to finish their first order of 3,000 pins for Pabst Blue Ribbon beer. Their mutual love of politics soon centered their business on campaigns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign Briefing | 9/27/2007 | See Source »

USAGE Ironically, the term was coined by Washington insiders after Monica Lewinsky's attorney William Ginsburg shuffled between studios to make the full circuit in February...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign Briefing | 9/27/2007 | See Source »

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