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Beuttler notes that the House's telecommuting system, created in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks and signed into law by President George W. Bush, enables members to work remotely. But visitors to the capital seemed dumbstruck at the chaos the storm had wreaked on normal civil functions. "It's embarrassing that the world's largest superpower closes from a few feet of snow," a 23-year-old tourist on the National Mall told the Associated Press. "The Kremlin must be laughing...
Meanwhile, mid-career gay activists who run the day-to-day gay movement from the East Coast - men and women in their late 30s to early 50s who slogged away at gay causes during the Bush interregnum - were rather dumbstruck at the idea that young gays wanted to march on Washington. "Pointless," one seasoned gay activist told me. "If Cleve and David Mixner have really inspired so many kids to work on our behalf - finally, by the way, because I think these kids spent the early part of this decade playing Nintendo or something - why don't they tell them...
...visit Japan to heal a rift caused when Clinton failed to attend an APEC economic summit. Looking over Clinton's calendar, Gore noticed three light days in January. No, Clinton said, he needed to be home for Chelsea, who'd be taking her junior-year midterms. Gore was dumbstruck. "Al," Clinton said, "I am not going to Japan and leave Chelsea by herself to take these exams." A new rift opened - between Clinton and Gore. Branch describes Clinton as wrestling with the problem "like a medieval scholastic. It was a choice between public duty on a vast scale...
Others sought to lend what assistance they could. Having been unable to break through the firm's jammed phone lines, Jason Cohen, a psychiatrist in private practice, made the one hour, 40 min. drive Monday morning from Freehold, N.J. with the intention of offering counsel to dumbstruck employees. But after witnessing the scene unfolding on the sidewalk, he decided to hold back. "I don't have the heart to approach people carrying boxes out of their offices," he says...
...Alice is dumbstruck--"Did all the Blackwells think Charlie was incompetent and foolish? Did everyone?" She reflexively rises to his defense. "Charlie wasn't the runt of the litter," she tells herself. "He wasn't an idiot." Not an idiot, surely, but a President of the United States? At the very moment that Alice realizes how the world sees her Prince Charming, Charlie suddenly gets his act together--under her threat of divorce. He is born again as a Christian and becomes the front man for a consortium of businessmen who buy the local baseball team. He is elected governor...