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...working on a magazine profile of the one person who might be able to save her: State Department troubleshooter Treat Morrison. "This was a man who could pick up the telephone and affect the Dow, reach the Foreign Minister of any one of a dozen NATO countries, the Oval Office itself." Morrison jets to the unnamed island where Elena is waiting to be paid, and the two of them...fall in love. "This is a romance after all," Didion's narrator confesses. It doesn't last long...
...downplayed her speech entirely, doubting anyone would remember anything beyond her ringing endorsement of Dole as "everything that we need for this country to take us into the next century." Molinari will certainly be around come the millennium, and may cherish the idea of a spot in the Oval Office herself. "She comes from a political family on Staten Island, and inherited her father's Congressional seat in a 1990 special election" says Rivera. "She is very much a modern American woman, a successful professional and mother. At the same time, she is very politically expedient. She is touted...
...civic Cassandras are also off-base about the origins of America's social capital. Local barn raisings have never been strictly local. While many conservative thinkers have suggested that America's traditional associations sprang up like indigenous flowers from the soil of American goodness, the recent Oval Office handshakes serve as a reminder that Washington has always been a conspirator in grass-roots organizing. As sociologist Theda Skocpol has written, many of the U.S.'s most cherished volunteer associations, such as the Red Cross, the Salvation Army and Catholic Charities, worked side by side with government. Conservatives have lamented...
...wall: "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might." Says he: "The future will take care of itself." But after one or two terms as best supporting actor, the ultimate promotion beckons. When Bob Dole announced he would quit the Senate, Gore was standing outside the Oval Office with chief of staff Leon Panetta, who said he thought Dole's move didn't make sense. "That's like President Clinton resigning to run for President," Panetta said. And the deadpan Gore just pulled on his chin and said, "Hmmmm...
With the contest set for May 18, 1946, in the Oval Room of Boston's Copley Plaza Hotel, the Lampoon sent out letters to 50 women's college newspapers requesting two beautiful representatives from each for a preliminary contest...