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...without George Clooney?), the Clintons snagged the headlines and talk shows for themselves--but with some good news for a change. Daniel Patrick Moynihan anointed the First Lady heir to his Senate seat, gushing over her "magnificent, young, bright, able, Illinois-Arkansas enthusiasm." When Virginia Senator Chuck Robb appeared at a White House forum on Social Security, he noted that he was the only one there from the Senate. "Of course, that's only the current U.S. Senate that I am referring to," he said, to gales of knowing laughter--and, hey, was that Bill and Hillary winking at each...
Among Senate Democrats, there's no obvious candidate to defend Clinton as adroitly as Barney Frank did in the House. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, who forcefully called Clinton to account over the summer, is still too undecided about him. Ted Kennedy and Virginia's Charles Robb, who have their own histories with women, are unlikely to come forward aggressively on a matter like this. Robert Byrd of West Virginia has already said he would oppose any attempt to sidestep a trial, such as a quick route to censure. Senators with presidential ambitions, like Paul Wellstone of Minnesota, will have their...
With his voluminous poetry reckoned in, Hugo's effect on French literature exceeded anything short of the Bible itself. Flaubert, Baudelaire, Gautier all stood in his shadow, along with foreigners like Dostoyevsky and Conrad. In the words of English scholar Graham Robb, whose brilliant new biography, Victor Hugo (Norton; 682 pages; $39.95), does for this sublime windbag what George Painter did for Proust 30 years ago, Hugo was "a one-man education system through which every writer had to pass...The story of Hugo's influence after death is the story of a river after it reaches...
...married into the old money and Virginia politics of the Willey clan. Her father-in-law, one of the state's most powerful legislators, did not approve of the match, but her husband Ed loved her. Willey spent many of her married years working on Democratic campaigns, including Chuck Robb's senatorial bid and several of Governor Douglas Wilder's campaigns. As part of the constant round of political giving and receiving, Kathleen Willey met Clinton, then Governor of Arkansas, at a 1989 Charlottesville fund raiser. At a party following the 1992 presidential debate in Richmond, Willey was excitedly introducing...
...Robb W. Johnson, a Cambridge parent active in local politics, said he is concerned about "finding a permanent home for Cambridgeport...