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Still, in one particular form of journalism--Washington-based newspaper coverage of the decisions, motives and actions of major governmental figures--Reston was for two decades after World War II a truly dominant figure. When the new President, John Kennedy, came out of a harrowing meeting with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in 1961, he went straight to a prearranged session with Reston to discuss Khrushchev's apparent threat of a nuclear showdown. In the months between that meeting and the Cuban missile crisis, Reston's reporting played the role it often had since the 1940s: it was the most authoritative...
...East-West Shrine Game, which is the nation’s premier All-Star game for senior football players, has been played annually since 1925. The game’s mission, aside from showcasing potential pro talent, is to raise money for the 22 Shriners Hospitals for Children nationwide. To date, it has raised more than $14 million...
...career as a bureaucrat at China's central bank, the People's Bank of China. His star rose there in 1994, a troubled time when inflation hit 24% and the economy was hobbled by a myriad of off-the-book loans between corporations. Zhu Rongji, then China's Vice Premier, was determined to untangle the mess. In meetings on the issue, "Shang impressed Zhu with his ability to cite numbers off the top of his head," recalls one of Shang's former bank colleagues. In addition, Shang is "likable and gives you a sense of honesty and confidence," he says...
...senior in New England. In this weekend’s Shrine Game, he will line up on the same team as two Heisman Trophy finalist quarterbacks—Iowa’s Brad Banks and Miami’s Ken Dorsey—in the nation’s premier college all-star game...
...tribe spends more--or more effectively--than Mississippi's Choctaw. Since 1997 the 8,800-member tribe has distributed some $11 million to Washington lobbying firms. Most of the money has gone to one of the capital's premier lobbyists, Jack Abramoff, a top Republican Party fund raiser. It was money well spent. In the 1997 legislative caper, Thad Cochran, Mississippi's five-term Republican Senator, slipped into a 40,000-word appropriations bill a 19-word sentence that exempts the tribe from oversight by the National Indian Gaming Commission (NIGC), the regulatory body created by Congress to oversee Indian...