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Some liberals who hoped Johnsen would be Obama's tonic to the office under Bush are bitterly disappointed by her withdrawal, and some accuse the White House of not backing their own candidate. But Lee Casey, a Washington attorney who was an attorney adviser in the Office of Legal Counsel in 1992 and 1993, says her nomination may have been abandoned because of a bigger confirmation fight that is now taking shape: the one for Justice Stevens' seat. "My guess is that it became a question of where do we want to spend the political capital," he says...
...Traditional Chinese medical theories have long extolled the health benefits of tonics and poultices made from rare animal parts, including everything from bear bile to deer antlers. Among enthusiasts for this esoteric branch of traditional medicine, few animals are more treasured for their nutritive qualities than the tiger. Tiger bone wine - a rice alcohol brewed in a vat with the carcass of one of the cats - is prized as a tonic for fatigue and sexual potency, for example. In an effort to clamp down on the lucrative poaching industry that sprung up around the big cats, sales of tiger parts...
...peppery calves' tongue, two meat pastas with meat sauces - actually meat juices! - plus two rib-eye steaks") to his plan for compliance with HACCP, which every N.Y.C. restaurant is required to follow, for food safety. The man is cranked up. Even the concept of failure seems to be a tonic for him. "There are five ways for everything to go wrong, and I'm a little nervous, but that's exciting," he says. (Watch 10 Questions for Mario Batali...
There are plenty of parties left through the weekend. Friday's line-up included another round of drinks with Tim Pawlenty at Gin & Tonic (with a guest appearance by Virginia Governor Bob McDonald); a party at George, a trendy Georgetown bar; a Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) happy hour to celebrate the launch of New Guard magazine at Murphy's Pub in Woodley Park; various receptions with conservative stars such as Ann Coulter and Monica Crowley; an XPAC comedy night; and the 6th annual Reaganpalooza Saturday at the Hawk and Dove bar on Capitol Hill. "This is like our Woodstock...
...activists have gotten the message," says political analyst Larry Sabato. "To be governor of Texas and to win as a moderate conservative Republican, she becomes a very hot property ... She'll automatically become a prospect for Vice President." But that was a year ago, before tea became a tonic for conservatives across the country...