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...Capitol Hill and his rapport with Clinton. When Panetta was elevated to chief of staff, however, his replacement, Alice Rivlin, lacked the political acumen to translate her economic credentials into real sway. She was not even invited to the negotiations with G.O.P. congressional leaders during last winter's government shutdown...
...poured quarter after quarter into a phone at Washington's National Airport. From the day she was handed the magic number, Staley has been faxing a stream of jokes, gossip and encouragement. "Hello from one essential government worker to another," she wrote the day after the first government shutdown began in 1995. "I'm only hearing support for your refusal to sign a bill you don't believe...
...safety gave Cabot its first lead of the game, and according to IM guru Russel Perkins, "Cabot shut down Timothy Dwight from there on out," a phenomenon that was not repeated in Saturday's game when the Bulldogs were certainly not shutdown by an early Crimson lead...
SHUT OUT BY THE SHUTDOWN...
...very public game of chicken with the President. And while Dole thought that was batty, he was willing to let Gingrich take the fall. Through the autumn, as the Democratic ads were raining on the Republican parade, Dole marched on, his fear of a backlash growing. A government shutdown was not what he wanted, and he could see it wasn't what the people wanted either. "There are people out there who live from paycheck to paycheck," he told Sheila Burke, his longtime chief aide. At a closed-door meeting in which Gingrich laid out plans for a shutdown, Dole...