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...Bush team likes to keep its secrets. But some embarrassing ones got out last week when a computer disc carrying White House political adviser Karl Rove's analysis of the 2002 elections was accidentally dropped in the streets of Washington and picked up by a surprised Democratic Senate staffer. The playbook confirmed much of what the Democrats have long suspected about an Administration that professes to be nonpolitical. A top strategy point advises Republican candidates to "focus on the war and economy," though the White House has said the war effort will not be used to win votes. A section...
Mark Phillips went to Budapest in search of money too, but by his own admission he didn't make much of it. He did produce Prague, a novel about five assorted young expatriates: a gay grad student, an idealistic young embassy staffer and so on--think The Budapest Breakfast Club. They form a loose, chatty little clique and stumble from bar to bar, job to job and bed to bed, often with the obliging locals. Their story lines go nowhere--a love affair fails to materialize, two angry brothers never make their peace--but the book almost stays aloft...
...staffer offered to send her resume to WHP anyway, and he included her thesis thinking the organization would be interested...
...said she knew everyone who works in the consulate," Hien, 30, recalls. "She said, 'There's no need for you to worry anymore. Auntie will take care of everything.'" A week later, Hien found himself with a U.S. immigrant visa-approved, he says, by the same Vietnamese staffer of the consulate who had rejected him previously. There was only one catch: Hien had to travel with his new "family," four Vietnamese whom he believes had paid the woman, Nguyen Thi Thanh Phuong, up to $20,000 to secure them visas to the U.S., piggybacking on Hien. When he wanted...
...people in the magazine's Boston-area office of the relationship. "She was having fun," says a staff member. "She didn't raise any ethical concerns. She was on Cloud 9." At one point, she reportedly flaunted an expensive bracelet--a gift from Welch. "Much to our discredit," the staffer says, "no one came forward to challenge her the way we should have." Kiechel has organized a task force to clarify guidelines about author- subject fraternization. How this will affect Wetlaufer remains to be seen; her publicist says the relationship with Welch continues...