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...that round over the Republicans, but that victory and all the others will be forgotten unless she can regain control over her own caucus. She didn't just politely suggest that people vote for Murtha; she fought hard. Her lieutenants plied the House with phone calls and none-too-subtle threats, including suggestions that anyone who bucked her might lose committee assignments. After Hoyer still drubbed Murtha by a vote of 149-86, Pelosi emerged from the ballot room and pronounced Hoyer's win "a stunning victory." By the look on her face, she meant it. Pelosi went to Hoyer...
Hello, Mr. President. This is Lazarus speaking." That is how Trent Lott answered a phone call last week from George W. Bush, the man who helped force him out of the Senate's top job in 2002 after Lott praised Strom Thurmond's 1948 segregationist presidential campaign. Maybe Lott is selling himself short. After all, Lazarus was in the tomb for only four days, but it took Lott, 65, four years to mount the improbable comeback that culminated in his election last Wednesday as minority whip, the second most powerful G.O.P. position in the Senate. But if Bush, who called...
...just starting out, we’re just like everyone else,” Skelton says of trying to attract advertisers. “We have to make our own brand, almost. Just getting sponsors was quite an undertaking. It’s a lot of phone-calling and getting hung up on.”Despite these initial difficulties, as well as some upheaval in personnel, preparations for the magazine’s launch are now proceeding at a steady clip. As the hub of the operation, Matthews is in constant contact with her staff via cell phone...
...time to get a fridge and washing machine, for which I headed across town to a street lined with electronics stores. Buying these bigger items proved easy and after a phone call to my wife to get her endorsement of my choices (Indian men call this checking with the Home Minister), I headed home with the promise that my purchases would be delivered within a few hours. The expedition had taken just over four hours...
...Hanoi. Just 15 years ago, the city's roads were silent save for the swish of bicycle wheels. Now, a journey across town requires navigating a roaring torrent of motorbikes that demand quick reflexes and constant adjustments to dodge teens steering with one hand while chatting on a cell phone held in the other. Stop signs are viewed merely as suggestions, and there are no lanes so much as threads of traffic - and even then, drivers tend to make sharp turns without even a glance behind them. The most important rule of the road, according to Mai, a 28-year...