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...park and play touch football.' People were appalled, but they appreciated a gesture he made in the fall of 1996, when the staff was again putting an issue to bed. Kennedy decided they needed to unwind: he called the Yankees front office and procured 41 skybox passes to a World Series game. No one complained that time...
Around Washington, where both men are as familiar as the skybox in the stadium where the Redskins play, everybody understands that these guys are prepared to go to trial if they must but even more prepared to deal if they can. If they strike the deal that Ginsburg could not, one that gives Lewinsky immunity from prosecution in exchange for her testimony, it could mean trouble for the White House. On the whole, Ginsburg wasn't entirely bad for Bill Clinton. The lawyer's attacks on Starr did nothing to hasten the day when his client could enter an agreement...
...crass trading of favors for campaign cash, the Barbour letter, signed simply "Haley," is extraordinarily blatant. It opens, "Let me get right to the point," and lays out in detail the special access money can buy, ranging from photographs with the Republican presidential contenders to cocktails in a private skybox at the G.O.P. convention in San Diego next August. The more contributors give--$15,000, $45,000, $150,000 or $250,000--the more they get in return...
...crypto-anarchists grab some Jolt from the wet bar and troop out, so now it's just me, Mom and Dad in the skybox. Dad points at the field with the stem of his pipe. ``Those 27 folks down there,'' he says. ``They didn't get any help from you, did they...
Which brings us to Super Bowl Sunday. We are sitting in a skybox high up in the Superdome, complete with wet bar, kitchen, waiters and big TV screens to watch the instant replays of what we've just seen with our own naked, pitiful, nondigital eyes...