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...camp in a chauffeured Audi, the Tinseltown-to-tent-city floodgates have clearly been opened: Vanessa Redgrave, Bianca Jagger, Roger Moore and former J. D. Salinger squeeze Joyce Maynard have all been there. Gwyneth Paltrow is mulling a visit, as are Christie Brinkley and hubby Peter Cook. From the Beltway, Hillary Clinton and Liddy Dole have pressed the flesh. And no less an assemblage than Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Luther Vandross, Boyz II Men and Luciano Pavarotti is signed to do a benefit for the Kosovar kids in Munich in June. Do we hear "We Are the Balkans...
...same, appreciating their work is a far cry from buying into their mindset. The fact is that being on the council is kind of like being inside the Beltway: things people outside consider petty (say, impeachment) seem, to those within, like the most essential matters in the world. When I was on the council, we all thought what we were doing was terribly important. Yet we failed to see that all around us our efforts were being ignored or scoffed at. Although things have gotten better since then--internal e-mail is way down, and meetings are shorter--too many...
...female troubles," it's menopause that has been undergoing the most decisive makeover. Fifteen years ago, when Geraldine Ferraro ran for the vice presidency, the question buzzing anxiously around the Beltway was, "Has she gone through menopause yet?" You certainly wouldn't want a Veep who flashed hot or popped Midol. Fast-forward to 1994, and the Washington Post could calmly interview power gals Pat Schroeder and Olympia Snowe on their feelings about hormone-replacement therapy--and no one was blushing or giggling. In fact, in the new femaleist vernacular, those aren't hot flashes; they're power surges. True...
...different. Hitchens says it's about standing up to the White House's lies. "They have the power, and they've gotten away with everything from campaign finance to wagging the dog," he says. Blumenthal's camp says it's about friendship, loyalty and something even more sacrosanct to Beltway journalists: the secrecy of gossipy off-the-record lunches with sources. With the Clinton saga wrapping up, it's hard to believe much is really at stake. Blumenthal is unlikely to stand trial for perjury; if he does, Hitchens insists he will go to jail rather than testify...
Dershowitz said he thought the impeachmentprocess was driven by more than just Beltway partypolitics...