BESET BY IMPORTS, BEEKEEPERS FINESSE A STICKY ISSUE
When you think of Washington lobbyists, the image may be of tassel-loafered slicksters doing the dirty deeds of Fortune 500 goliaths. Please, then, meet Wayne Watkinson, lawyer for the dark...
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GOP SENATOR TEMPERS PARTY’S SENTIMENT ON IMMIGRATION
He looks like comedian Jon Lovitz, loves ESPN's "SportsCenter" and "Columbo" reruns and is considering a diet after posing in a Detroit Red Wings jersey during the recent Stanley Cup...
ON PLANTATION D.C., THE SEN-UH-TAH IS CHIEF CONFEDERATE
The Southern senator ambled into the hearing room last week exuding power, if not prosperity, like a plump plantation owner onto a veranda to survey his holdings and minions in...
CARICATURE DRAWS WRONG CONCLUSIONS ABOUT FINE DIPLOMAT
With 12 large color television sets embedded in the wall near my office, I might have fretted when Richard Holbrooke ambled in early one morning last week. After all, one...
AS ELLSBERG SEES IT, YEARS ROLL BY AND SO DO CAPITAL ERRORS
It is always worth mining the fringes. With its childlike attention span and memory, the capital can forget or lose interest in the likes of Daniel Ellsberg. Sitting at home,...
REPUBLICAN SOUNDS DEMOCRATIC IN HEALTH-CARE PROPOSAL
Charlie Norwood has heard howls in his day, especially from citizens on the receiving end of his drill. Those don't match the pain he's inflicting on fellow hotshot Republicans in...
LAWMAKER BELIEVES MOTHERS DESERVE BETTER GOLDEN YEARS
For Mother's Day, don't just bring that special someone a box of chocolates, a woven hot pad or a cheesy Christmas ornament with your picture affixed. Bring her a pension....
EX-WRESTLER LAWMAKERS GRAPPLE WITH NCAA TO HELP SPORT
Rep. J. Dennis Hastert and Sen. Paul Wellstone might have nothing in common except knowing the vagaries of the half nelson. But together, the Republican from Illinois and the unabashedly...
IT’S A SLAM JAM, MA’AM, AND THAT SHOULD BE POETRY, HEAR?
The mention of First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and a poetry slam may conjure a single image: Hillary heaving a copy of Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" across her bedroom...
PENTAGON’S MULTIBILLION-DOLLAR BUNGLING LOST IN STARR’S GLARE
While the media massed outside the courthouse for a career update from Kenneth Starr, a congressional hearing was drawing flies despite disclosures of billion-dollar bungling. Welcome to the capital, where...