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...marriage and depict children as noisy housewreckers. His own marriage effectively ended with a separation five years ago; his frequent companion, as British newspapers phrase it, is Claire Tomalin, literary editor of the London Sunday Times. Frayn says he remains close to his daughters, one a novice BBC staffer, another a would-be journalist, the third applying to universities. He admits that his sour descriptions of beleaguered parenthood and the "squalor of middle-class domestic life" derive from memory. But he adds, in a line echoing the sensibility of Benefactors and his other work so aptly that it might...
...production jobs. Says Washington Bureau Chief George Watson: "We have not cut into the teeth of the news-gathering and producing-operation." Yet staff morale has plummeted, and some insiders claim that personnel are being spread too thin. "It will reflect in the quality of the show," predicts a staffer at ABC's newsmagazine 20/20, which lost four positions in the cutbacks. "We are already burnt out." Says a New York City-based producer: "I don't know if the new management understands the need for bench strength...
...managers inside the Bank, relying more on his "loyalists" who moved with him from the Administration. But, for now at least, the charm offensive seems to be working. "People are saying, 'I met him. He didn't seem to have horns or a tail or anything,'" says another Washington staffer. In addition to winning over his new colleagues, Wolfowitz confronts an equally daunting challenge if he hopes to change the way the World Bank does business. The Bank has changed from its early days when it focused mainly on funding huge infrastructure projects such as dams and bridges. Under James...
...didn't meet for several months this year because Democrats were protesting GOP changes to its rules. Republicans reversed those rule changes, but now the committee is fighting over how its staff should be organized. The Ethics Committee's Chairman, Rep. Doc Hastings, wants to put one of his staffers in a position as co-director of the committee, to allow him to oversee it more closely. The other co-director would be a staffer from the office of Alan Mollohan, the top Democrat on the committee. But Mollohan, as well as House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, has balked...
...Harvard it seems like being a Republican is evil,” Elizabeth A. Sykes ’04, a Bush-Cheney campaign staffer, said at the event. Behind her, an enormous projection screen flashed the latest numbers from Fox News. “To come here, to be surrounded by so many people who believe in the president like I do—it’s refreshing. It’s so inspirational...