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...night. She imposed a strict Dean Ornish menu on the household--salmon, chicken, blueberries and bran--one that left everyone but her and Chelsea hungry. Hugh was known to steal off to McDonald's or organize family outings from Camp David to the Cozy Restaurant in nearby Thurmont, Md., for a fix of fries. As time went on, in ever larger sweat clothes and golf sweaters bearing the White House seal, the more he wanted Hillary's approval, the less likely...
...what cell phones are for: Much of the hallway chatter in Okinawa was about the strange near-death and rebirth of the Camp David talks just hours before Clinton departed last Wednesday. Officials insist it was not a ploy. In fact, National Security Council spokesman P. J. Crowley left Thurmont after announcing the talks were done and started driving back to the White House in preparation for leaving for Japan. As he drove, knowing that Clinton would have to motorcade back because bad weather grounded the chopper, he kept looking in his rear-view mirror for the speeding entourage. After...
...part of the official delegation have been holding forth on the acceptablity of compromises that may or may not have been offered. Call them roving freelance international pundits who can't get on "Charlie Rose." Earlier in the week, an Israeli cabinet member, Michael Melchior, was giving interviews in Thurmont, and Hanan Ashrawi, a well-known Palestinian figure, was giving press conferences back in Washington. But the White House drew the line when Limor Livnat, a member of the Likud party, which opposes Barak, showed up to lobby reporters in the press center and complain about what she thought Barak...
...cake. Local residents have set up an informal canteen in the Thurmont Elementary School filing center where they sell muffins, donuts, sodas, snacks, sandwiches and pieces of pizza from Dominos. Best bet: little cups of fresh-picked local blueberries, just 25 cents...
There goes the neighborhood. Although the Thurmont residents have been friendly and welcoming to the press corps, they know their visitors. Upon arrival, everyone is given a sheet with elaborate instructions on where not to park, and details of the towing policies and fines in effect. Inside, the school is plastered with warnings not to smoke, with signs pointing to the designated smokers' area outside in the back. But relations took a turn for the worse when some Arab and Israeli reporters allegedly took down the American flags from some of the classrooms...