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...tales of wondrous sights and tremendous opportunities. The future politicians and policy analysts go down to Washington, D.C., to learn their way around Capitol Hill and the White House. Those interested in mergers and acquisitions find themselves plum positions with prominent Wall Street firms. The techies migrate towards Silicon Valley, visions of being the next Bill Gates, Class of 1977, dancing in their heads...
...president but no one actually knows anything. In a town where that isn't much of a restraint, the lack of information has only increased the confecting of opinions. The smallest pieces of information have been whispered in urgent phone calls, tossed off with an arched eyebrow at Spring Valley dinners and sent with SPECIAL BOLD LETTERING to e-mail addresses across the city. The cycle of information is constantly churning and the tone has devolved from "Meet The Press" heights into chatter that sounds more like middle schoolers trading gossip about crushes...
When bribery fails, oenophiles turn to auctions and rare-wine dealers. Clark Gibson not only paid $600 for a $59 Sine Qua Non 1997 Imposter McCoy Syrah, he also drove from Chicago to pick it up. At the 20th annual Napa Valley Wine Auction for charity last month, collector Chase Bailey bid $500,000 for a single six-liter bottle of a 1992 Screaming Eagle Cabernet, the highest auction price ever paid for a bottle of wine. Under what circumstances do you imbibe a half-million-dollar bottle of wine? "I haven't the slightest idea," says Bailey. "Maybe...
...Consult the crystal ball 2. __'s Ghost (Ondaatje novel) 3. __ Valley (site of Reagan Library) 4. 53-Across was a huge 19th century exporter of this 5. High-pressure Wall Street specialist, for short 6. Swerve off course 7. Must-have in an Iditarod 8. __.gov (site that will consolidate 20,000 current government websites) 9. Western treaty gp. since 1948 10. Drag queen's wrap 13. House members have agreed to ease the food embargo on it 15. Confederate-flag items 19. Hubbubs 21. Kiltie? 22. This was rationed beginning July 1, 1918 24. Victims of the Morlocks...
Visualize this: Timothy Draper, the gonzo venture capitalist from Silicon Valley, swoops into a South Central Los Angeles church to preach the gospel of school vouchers to a group of black ministers. He is introduced--by his own advance man--as "an instrument of God's hand, like Rosa Parks." Never mind that this is a 42-year-old multimillionaire preppie known to ski in boxer shorts and throw Frisbees at conferences, who even dressed as Batman to inaugurate a Manhattan office. Today, Draper tells the assembled pastors, he is ready to spend at least $20 million of his fortune...