Word: washingtonization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...late 1970s, when I was writing columns and editorials for the Washington Post, MEG GREENFIELD had just been appointed editorial-page editor. She was canny enough to assign me only those editorials that required no thought or knowledge; when a golfer in Maryland murdered a goose that had interfered with his game, the piece was my meat. I wrote the goose editorial on deadline, and rushing past Meg's desk, I shouted, "What should I call this?" Without looking up, she shot back, "'Honk If You Think He's Guilty...
...very brave. She spent the past three years dying of cancer, yet so alive was she with ideas about world events, she made one forget the inevitable. Her small, frail body would shake with rage or laughter at Clinton and Monica, at Congress, at her beloved city of Washington, which she would ridicule in private and defend against outside assaults, as one would a foolish child...
Other than her friend and employer, Katharine Graham, she was the most powerful woman in Washington, yet she never flaunted her power or made a big deal of her womanhood. She simply took her work responsibly, with deep fair-mindedness. How she loved the news! Meg lived alone, and in a way the news was her family. Journalism offered a chance to apply something outside the news to the news. She was saved from the corrosive boredom that ruins other journalists by her knowledge of English literature. In her 50s she took up Greek...
Whether Chernomyrdin, Yeltsin or anyone else in the Russian government could refocus was the question now confronting Washington. For five weeks Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has pinned her peace hopes on what she called a "double-magnet" strategy: pulling Russia toward NATO's demands so that it, in turn, would tug Belgrade. But Administration aides were worried that in the current chaos, nobody under Yeltsin "would be left to cut the deal...
...Lipkin-Shahak's would-be host seems to be in his corner. "From Washington, he looks good," says a State Department official. As military chief he gained considerable experience working with the Americans. The U.S. likes the idea of resuming land-for-peace negotiations between Israel and Syria at the ambassadorial level in Washington. "Lipkin-Shahak knows the issues, has the credibility and knows how to keep a secret," says the State Department source. Plus, if talks between the two nations take place in Washington, the U.S. remains fully in the picture and positioned to claim a foreign policy coup...