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Both the offices of Rep. Michael E. Capuano (D-Mass.) and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56 (D-Mass.) intervened on Song’s behalf in her application process, the Boston Globe reported...
...Some bookstores around the country are holding "Pynchon Nights" and others may schedule special events around the new book's release. But Penguin is deliberately keeping hands off such hoopla. "We're respecting the author's choice for us to stay apart from these things," says the Penguin rep. "Oh my god, that book will sell itself - there's a built-in audience of his fans," says Charles Day, marketing manager at the popular West Hollywood, California retailer Book Soup. Day expects to trumpet the release with large window displays, staff recommendations, and prominent placement of the hefty volumes near...
Wishful thinking has blamed current ills on pork, former Rep. Mark Foley, the immigration and Social Security impasses, lobbyists, and the like—effectively everything except for the party’s ill-advised and disastrous foreign policy, the true cause of Republican misfortunes. Unless the Republican Party acknowledges the problems with its post-9/11 foreign policy and returns to its rational, restrained roots, either it will die out, as Americans refuse to trust it any longer at the helm of our country, or it will overextend our military so much that our efforts to preserve peace...
...Democratic member of Congress improperly enlist the support of a major pro-Israel lobbying group to try to win a top committee assignment? That's the question at the heart of an ongoing investigation by the FBI and Justice Department prosecutors, who are examining whether Rep. Jane Harman of California and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) may have violated the law in a scheme to get Harman reappointed as the top Democrat on the House intelligence committee, according to knowledgeable sources in and out of the U.S. government...
...quiet but aggressive campaign to persuade House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to reappoint her to the prestigious position on the House intel panel. The alleged campaign to support Harman for the leadership post came amid media reports that Pelosi had soured on her California colleague and might name Rep. Alcee Hastings of Florida, himself a major supporter of Israel, to succeed Harman...