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...lobbyist--much less your brother, staying upstairs, much less at the White House--was probably enough to force the junior Senator from New York to explain what she knew and when she knew it as quickly as possible last week. On Thursday she gave what is becoming her trademark, smile-through-adversity press conference. In a 45-minute session, Clinton explained that she first heard about Rodham's involvement as a pardon broker two weeks ago, when reporters began to make "inquiries of a vague nature." But she said she did not get "specific information" until Feb. 19, when...
...there's still that last president keeping Bush's Q-ratings down, and while that's catnip for Bush's personal mojo, this was also the week Bush's agenda could have used a more agnostic spotlight. With ex-White House counsel Beth Nolan's piano-key smile lighting up CNN for days on end, Bush's two-day, five-state sales tour made barely a blip on the cable-news radar, and when the Pardongate hearings took a break, there was Greenspan before the House for two mornings this week. And besides hogging the airwaves, the Fed chairman...
...Junior Parents Weekend Committee has hit the nail on the head. At this event your parents will be welcomed to Harvard in the same way that you were two-and-a-half years ago--by a debonair administrator who will crack a few jokes, flash a toothy smile, assure your parents that the administration cares very much about undergraduates and then disappear for the rest of the weekend. Your parents will have the sneaking suspicion that the encounter is superficial and just for show, but you do want to show them what really happens at Harvard, right...
...then Bush had grasped the comic, or at least fairytale, possibilities, and, after a short pause, delivered the last line with a smile. "I respectfully disagree. This tax relief is just right...
...start of the event, however, Chan seemed nervous about his English. He said he didn't want to make "too many speeches----I'm just smiling for the whole day." Chan did much more than sit and smile, however, and joined in several of the student performances...