Word: poste
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...Washington has been watching all the ferment and doesn't know whether to laugh or cry--or try to get in on the action. There was never much private industry in D.C. For years the biggest private employer was the Washington Post. Because of the relative scarcity of large private fortunes, there were very few big locally owned banks. Power and influence were the currency. Elected officials, lobbyists, lawyers and consultants lived and worked in the same neighborhoods, schmoozing over lunches and dinners and cigars at watering holes like Duke Ziebert's and country clubs like Burning Tree. What mattered...
Lawmakers certainly need instruction. What most legislators know about the Internet would fill a Post-it note. Such ignorance is bliss for the high-tech industry. Not since the days of oil barons and railway tycoons has Washington been so in the thrall of a group of corporate executives...
...perhaps that fascination is simply a kind of "desert island discs" game that calls on the reader to consider his or her own menu for a final meal. But even more fascinating than the contents of the site, perhaps, is the decision by the folks down at Huntsville to post this information...
...Most great presidents have highly assertive personalities, are enthusiastic thinkers and are striving constantly to achieve. A lively intelligence and openness to feelings are also associated with presidential greatness." -Washington Post's Marc Kaufman
...House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt and New Hampshire Gov. Jeanne Shaheen are no longer under consideration since they have said they don't want the job, a person familiar with the selection process said yesterday. Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh also is no longer in contention for the post, a source familiar with the deliberations said. Barring a late entry by a surprise contender, that leaves three senators in the running for the post: John F. Kerry of Massachusetts, John Edwards of North Carolina and Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut." (Jeanne Cummings and Jackie Calmes...