National Journal articles from August 2001

National Journal archives from August 2001

Serious Games.(human rights violations in China)(Brief Article)
August 4, 2001... Watching while millions of Chinese celebrated their country's successful bid to host the 2008 Summer Olympics, I couldn't help but think about the individual victims of a repressive government. Perhaps it was the stark contrast between the...

Letters.
August 4, 2001... ABOUT STEELWORKERS' HEARTS That a single action by the President would facilitate a union political endorsement in 2004 ["Trying to Steel Labor's Heart," 6/30/01, p. 2100] is a naive notion that would be readily dismissed by anyone...

WHEN ONE SIDE HAS A MEGAPHONE, AND THE OTHER DOESN'T.(media coverage of the Palestinian Arabs)
August 4, 2001... If journalism is the first rough draft of history, it also sometimes gets to be the second rough draft. On July 26, The New York Times ran 5,681 striking words of revisionism written by departing Jerusalem bureau chief Deborah Sontag, on the...

PUTIN IS RIGHT: RUSSIA BELONGS IN NATO.
August 4, 2001... On July 18, the globe shifted a few degrees on its axis. Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, said that Russia does not see NATO as a hostile organization, but also does not see why NATO is needed. Nothing new there. But then he said: "The...

McCain's Evolution.
August 4, 2001... PARTY TURNCOAT OR PRAGMATIST? WHICHEVER YOU BELIEVE, JOHN McCAIN IS A CHANGED MAN IN THE WAKE OF HIS PRESIDENTIAL BID. One might expect Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., to get testy when quizzed about his apparent shift in political philosophy....

Reforming the Ranks.(United States military)
August 4, 2001... THE PENTAGON WELCOMES INFORMATION-AGE TECHNOLOGY INTO ITS WEAPONS. BUT IT IS SADDLED WITH AN OUTMODED INDUSTRIAL-AGE SCHEME FOR MANAGING THE CAREERS AND PROMOTIONS OF ITS OFFICERS AND TROOPS. In a three-ring circus, sometimes the most...

ON THE SPIT AT THE PIG ROASTS.
August 4, 2001... Congressional Republicans had hoped to hit the townhall-and-state-fair circuit during the August recess with evidence that they and the new President together had changed the way Washington works. They wanted to wave around a fistful of...

WHY SPECIAL EDUCATION COULD SPARK A VETO.(Brief Article)
August 4, 2001... As Congress works to finalize the House and Senate bills that represent President Bush's education agenda, an issue that wasn't on Bush's radar screen is poised to steal much of the spotlight: special education. A little-noticed provision...

PIVOTAL EVENTS IN CONGRESS.
August 4, 2001... JULY 30-AUGUST 2 Bush Energy Plan Wins House Passage House Republicans pushed President Bush's energy plan through their chamber in the early hours of August 2 after mining enough votes to approve drilling on a strip of the Alaskan...

HOUSE-SENATE COMMITTEE ACTION.
August 4, 2001... BY NATIONAL JOURNAL NEWS SERVICE JULY 30-AUGUST 2 House Panel Approves Missile Defense Plan DEFENSE After facing tough choices that pitted the military's current needs against futuristic defense systems, the House Armed Services...

NOT JUST A ROUND WARRIOR.(new head of the Federal Highway Administration)
August 4, 2001... For Washington's influential highway lobby, the Clinton years weren't the best of times. Although the former President signed into law the largest highway bill in U.S. history, his Administration wasn't necessarily keen on pouring concrete and...

DOWN A SLIPPERY POLL.(polls of president George W. Bush)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
August 4, 2001... Last month, when George W. Bush's job-approval rating dipped in a couple of national polls, the Democrats reacted, collectively, as if they'd won the super jackpot in Powerball. Egged on by the media, which paid for the surveys, left-leaning...

The First Lady.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
August 4, 2001... NICE GOING Adults polled by the Pew Research Center were asked what one word best described their impression of first lady Laura Bush. Respondents offered such adjectives as classy, quiet, loyal, and pleasant. But the word that was...

The Approval Game.(public opinion of the president and legislators)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
August 4, 2001... ALONG PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE The latest Harris Poll shows President Bush's overall job-approval rating on the rise from last month (56 percent positive, 39 percent negative). Meanwhile, Vice President Dick Cheney's rating has taken a 10-point...

Foreign Affairs.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
August 4, 2001... THINGS HAVE Americans now consider China the greatest threat to world peace, according to a poll for ABCNews.com. Asked an open-ended question, respondents placed the countries at right in the top five. (7/22/01; 1,022 adults; [+ or -] 3%)...

A HIGH-TECH SHAKEOUT ON K STREET?
August 4, 2001... Gary Fazzino, Hewlett-Packard's vice president of government and public affairs, is among an increasing number of technology-sector lobbyists who are asking tough questions about the way their industry tries to wield influence in the nation's...

If Florida Had Only Known.(plans of an election system firm)(Brief Article)
August 4, 2001... With the country's election system due for a congressional overhaul, VoteHere Inc.--a company that makes next-generation election system--wants to get in on the action. The Bellevue, Wash., firm has opened a Washington lobbying outpost and has...

Patton Boggs Pushing Metabolife.(dietary supplement)(Brief Article)
August 4, 2001... Brian C. Lopina once toiled as director of government affairs tot the Christian Coalition, and he has been an active and visible cultural conservative in Washington. But as a lawyer-lobbyist for Patton Boggs, Lopina is also representing San...

Where the Buffalo Roam.(Brief Article)
August 4, 2001... Paul Darby, a former Agriculture Department aide turned solo lobbyist, is trying to lasso some department funds for a bison cooperative in North Dakota. Last year, Sen. Byron Dorgan, D.N.D., inserted language in an Agriculture Department bill...

Keeping His Dream Alive.(former representative Robert S. Walker's lobbies for hydrogen energy)(Brief Article)
August 4, 2001... For most of his 10 terms in the House, a pet project of Bob Walker s was to help spur the development of hydrogen power. Now as a Wexler Group lobbyist (and its CEO), the Pennsylvania Republican is keeping his old dream alive by representing...

Yep, That's One Dirty Job.(lobbying for construction-site toilets)(Brief Article)
August 4, 2001... It's a dirty job, but someone's got to do it. The Portable Sanitation Association International has retained the North Carolina finn of McClees Consulting Inc. to lobby the Labor Department on a federal rule that would increase the number of...

WHAT CLONING HAS WROUGHT.
August 4, 2001... Of one thing, I have no doubt. The growing use of reprogenetics [reproductive biology and genetics] is inevitable. For better and worse, a new age is upon us--an age in which we as humans will gain the ability to change the nature of our...

PATENTS, PROFITS, AND THE STEM-CELL DEBATE.
August 4, 2001... Whether President Bush and Congress decide to allow or to ban the use of federal money for research on stem cells taken from human embryos, the decision will have an enormous impact on the business climate for researchers, universities, and...

The Battle Over Citizen Lawmaking.(Review)
August 4, 2001... The Battle Over Citizen Edited by M. Dane Walters Carolina Academic Press 294 pages $28.00 How much direct democracy is enough? If you are one of the contributors to The Battle Over Citizen Lawmaking, we have not even begun...

Direct Democracy or Representative Government?(Review)
August 4, 2001... Direct Democracy or Representative Government? By John Haskell Westview Press 212 pages $29.00 How much direct democracy is enough? If you are one of the contributors to The Battle Over Citizen Lawmaking, we have not even...

ON WRITERS: BYTES OF INSIGHT AND SASS.(interview with Sara Miles)(Interview)
August 4, 2001... AN INTERVIEW WITH SARA MILES It's 1996. The Democratic Party is changing, and the dot-com world is about to explode on the scene. That is the opening setup of Sara Miles's book, How to Hack a Party Line: The Democrats and Silicon Valley,...

THE ART OF EXPLOITATION.(marketing strategies)(Brief Article)
August 4, 2001... In the past few weeks, two remarkable stories have danced lightly across the feature pages of America's newspapers. So lightly that if you weren't watching closely, you probably missed them, and that would be a shame. The first is about...

NOW FOR THE HARD PART.(Mexican trucks in the United States)(Brief Article)
August 4, 2001... The seven-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement is back on the front pages these days, even though Pat Buchanan and Ross Perot are nowhere to be found. It's not the dreaded sound of U.S. jobs being sucked south of the border that's...

LIFE AFTER RUDY.(Rudolph W. Giuliani)
August 4, 2001... In 1993, when Rudolph W. Giuliani was first elected mayor of New York City, the Big Apple looked pretty rotten. Crime seemed out of control. Race relations were still strained from the anti-Jewish rioting in the Crown Heights neighborhood. And...

Harlem Globetrotter.(Bill Clinton)(Brief Article)
August 4, 2001... Former President Clinton "stole the show" on Monday. President Bush was "in midsentence" of a speech to the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives, when CNN cut away to show Clinton's Harlem block party celebrating his new...

The Noise From Brazile.(Brief Article)
August 4, 2001... Should we be counting the days until an announcement? Former Gore 2000 campaign manager Donna Brazile, appearing on CNN's Inside Politics, said that it is "too early to speculate" about former Vice President Al Gore's future. "I know he's very...

Lois Bidder.(John Breaux's Senate seat)(Brief Article)
August 4, 2001... Wouldn't he rather be in the same town as his wife? As Sen. John Breaux, D-La., "continues to mull a run" for governor in 2003, he recently "floated an intriguing scenario" in Washingtonian magazine. Breaux said that he could hold his Senate...

Pawlenty of Nothing.(Tim Pawlenty)(Brief Article)
August 4, 2001... Don't blame Tim Pawlenty for feeling left behind. The Minneapolis Star Tribune's Dane Smith writes that the "outlook for the top of Minnesota's Republican ticket in the fall of 2002 has had an unusually fixed feel to it for months." Businessman...

Southern Comfort.(political campaigning in the South)(Brief Article)
August 4, 2001... Does this mean he won't be backing Gore in 2004? Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe told Democrats at the Mississippi Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner last week that the days of Democrats "writing off the South are over." ...

Waxing Politic.(David Beasley's fund raising activities)(Brief Article)
August 4, 2001... Former South Carolina Gov. David Beasley cranked out a fundraising letter to GOP activists in which he argued that a six-way GOP gubernatorial primary is going to be both brutal and a financial drain. Meanwhile, Beasley said Democratic Gov. Jim...

But Is She Jesse's Girl?(Elizabeth Dole)(Brief Article)
August 4, 2001... If his wife runs and wins, will Bob Dole have to open an office in Harlem, too? U.S. News & World Report's Paul Bedard reports that Elizabeth Dole, North Carolina's "girl-done-good," has "ducked signaling her Senate intentions," even to...

Quotables.
August 4, 2001... "Short of getting America into World War III, the decision he makes here will probably be the most profound decision he makes in his first term."--Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., on President Bush's pending decision on stem-cell research (Capital...

POPULAR POLS EYE SENATE SHOOT-OUT IN SOUTH DAKOTA.(Brief Article)
August 4, 2001... As Republican Rep. John Thune of South Dakota edges ever closer to challenging Democratic Sen. Timothy P. Johnson, the stage is being set for what surely would be one of the nation's most competitive contests next year. The fight would pit two...

"I have a competitive nature," says Kathy R. Didawick, adding that it has served her well during a 15-year career on the Hill.(Brief Article)
August 4, 2001... "I have a competitive nature," says Kathy R. Didawick, adding that it has served her well during a 15-year career on the Hill. Now she will be fighting for health insurance interests as the director of political affairs for the Blue Cross Blue...

Patrick B. Donoho never thought bottled water could be so complicated.(Brief Article)
August 4, 2001... Patrick B. Donoho never thought bottled water could be so complicated. But as the new vice president of government relations for the International Bottled Water Association, he said he's "just starting to find out that it deals with everything...

Former Hill staffer Elizabeth Humphrey recently became a new associate director at the Association of Trial Lawyers of America.(Brief Article)
August 4, 2001... Former Hill staffer Elizabeth Humphrey recently became a new associate director at the Association of Trial Lawyers of America. She'll be lobbying on civil justice issues and focusing on House and Senate Republicans--including, possibly, her...

Advocates of "smart-growth" planning say they'll have their greatest impact on urban sprawl through state actions, and Maryland has become a proving ground.(Brief Article)
August 4, 2001... Advocates of "smart-growth" planning say they'll have their greatest impact on urban sprawl through state actions, and Maryland has become a proving ground. One of those advocates is Roy Kienitz, 38, who recently left his position as executive...

National Association Broadcasters.(Brief Article)
August 4, 2001... For the past six years, Melinda Lewis was one of the most-influential figures on Capitol Hill--at least in matters relating to baseball. As Major League Baseball's outreach coordinator, Lewis got legislators their World Series and All-Star Game...

Another former member of the U.S. Trade Representative's Office is making the jump to the private sector.(Brief Article)
August 4, 2001... Another former member of the U.S. Trade Representative's Office is making the jump to the private sector. This time it's Emily Beizer, who was assistant U.S. trade representative for congressional affairs. Beizer, 36, is going to Mayer, Brown &...

Seven years ago, Bill Greene steered his career into politics after working on a Maryland congressional race.(Brief Article)
August 4, 2001... Seven years ago, Bill Greene steered his career into politics after working on a Maryland congressional race. Now, he's applying his Capitol Hill experience to another kind of race: NASCAR. House staffer Greene, 36, is the new manager of...

As if planning a wedding and buying a house were not enough, Mary Ellen Bahret is experiencing yet another life change: a new job as a principal at the Washington-based lobbying firm OB*C Group.(Brief Article)
August 4, 2001... As if planning a wedding and buying a house were not enough, Mary Ellen Bahret is experiencing yet another life change: a new job as a principal at the Washington-based lobbying firm OB*C Group. Bahret, 28, comes from the National Federation of...

Jeff Crater says he wants to return to his energy policy roots.(Brief Article)
August 4, 2001... Jeff Crater says he wants to return to his energy policy roots. He'll get his chance as the manager for government programs at the Washington operations office of BWX Technologies Inc., a company that manages and cleans up nuclear facilities....

As the House Education and the Workforce Committee works to finalize the bill representing much of President Bush's education agenda, Republicans are already staffing up for the next big battle: special education.(Brief Article)
August 4, 2001... As the House Education and the Workforce Committee works to finalize the bill representing much of President Bush's education agenda, Republicans are already staffing up for the next big battle: special education. They've hired Charles...

After finishing second in a 1994 primary for a House seat representing Ohio's 18th District, James R. Hart and his wife, Deborah, traveled to Myrtle Beach, S.C., to regroup.(Brief Article)
August 4, 2001... After finishing second in a 1994 primary for a House seat representing Ohio's 18th District, James R. Hart and his wife, Deborah, traveled to Myrtle Beach, S.C., to regroup. Afterward, Hart, who had been chief of staff to then-Rep. Doug...

PERSONALITY POLITICS CONQUERS JAPAN.(Brief Article)
August 4, 2001... TOKYO--How many of the 25 elected leaders of Japan since World War II can you name? For a half-century, Japan has been governed by a faceless system. Now it's governed by a leader, one whose mission is taking on that system. With last Sunday's...

Correction.(Correction Notice)
August 11, 2001... A People item (8/4/01, p. 2511) misspelled the name of Charles Hokanson, who was recently hired by the House Education and the Workforce Committee.

WILL THAT BE SIX CYLINDERS OR EIGHT FOR YOUR GROCERY CART, MA'AM?(regulation of sport-utility vehicles)
August 11, 2001... Can you imagine one transportation initiative that would put real money in the pockets of working families, increase fuel efficiency without the slightest compromise of passenger safety, and benefit the environment--all without a penny of cost...

The O'Niell Enigma.(Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill)
August 11, 2001... TREASURY SECRETARY PAUL O'NEILL ROCKETED THROUGH THE RANKS OF GOVERNMENT AS A YOUNG MAN, AND THEN SHOT UP THE CORPORATE LADDER WITH EQUAL SKILL. BUT HE SEEMS TO BE NOSE-DIVING ON HIS RE-ENTRY INTO WASHINGTON. Washington has a special...

WHY SHOULD I BE A BALLERINA BARRE?(interview with Paul O'Neill)(Interview)
August 11, 2001... Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill sat down with National Journal correspondent Julie Kosterlitz on July 2 and July 31 for interviews that touched on his style, politics, Social Security, and other topics. Here are excerpts from their...

Mr. Smith's Crusade.(Bob Smith)
August 11, 2001... HOW SEN. BOB SMITH OF NEW HAMPSHIRE HAS SINGLE-HANDEDLY PUSHED AN ANTI-SATELLITE WEAPON THAT THE ARMY REALLY DOESN'T WANT. It is not unusual in this town to see a lone lawmaker get on his high horse and charge after a piece of the vast...

MEMO TO INCUMBENTS: WATCH YOUR BACKS!
August 11, 2001... Based on the early results from redistricting, Tip O'Neill's famous aphorism should be modified a bit. Right now, all politics is personal. Incumbents are learning they've got to look out for themselves as states redraw their congressional...

AN UPBEAT SPIN ON FUTURE BOTTOM LINES.(Statistical Data Included)
August 11, 2001... Coming off perhaps the best year in the history of the public relations industry, executives with Washington PR firms are now grappling with an economic downturn--although most of them insist (they are flacks, remember) that they'll make it...

FROM THE K STREET CORRIDOR.(Brief Article)
August 11, 2001... AARP as Deal-Maker? As the nation's largest organization of elderly Americans (and aging baby boomers), AARP is always noticed whenever it flexes its muscles on Capitol Hill. And, over the years, the group has sometimes refrained from...

A DIFFERENT KIND OF FARM BILL.
August 11, 2001... For some economists, the debate over the 10-year farm bill and how to spend $37 billion to $80 billion on farmland conservation is like arguing over which Band-Aid might cure gangrene. Peter VanDoren, editor of the Cato Institute's Regulation,...

THE TEAMSTERS TRY TO GRAB THE WHEEL.(political activity of transportation unions)(Brief Article)
August 11, 2001... Whoever thought that the election of George W. Bush spelled political doom for organized labor, think again. Early this month, on two contentious issues, the Teamsters scored back-to-back victories and showed signs of flexing the kind of...

THE ARCTIC PERSUASION.(journalists' coverage of oil drilling plans in the Artic)(Brief Article)
August 11, 2001... ON THE MEDIA Sometimes, it almost feels as if media bias is a thing of the past. The public has gotten sophisticated about news, and won't tolerate the blatant boosterism that used to pass for journalism. Every story is sniffed at by...

A War of Nerves.(Review)
August 11, 2001... A War of Nerves By Ben Shephard Harvard University Press 487 pages $27.95 Ben Shephard's A War of Nerves: Soldiers and Psychiatrists in the Twentieth Century traces the evolution of wartime neuroses from the puzzling appearance of...

American Foundations.(Review)
August 11, 2001... American Foundations By Mark Dowie MIT Press 320 pages $29.95 Investigative reporter Mark Dowie, who has written sensibly elsewhere, has a lot of complaints about American foundations in his forthcoming book with the title that...

Why Americans Still Don't Vote.(Review)
August 11, 2001... Why Americans Still Don't Vote By Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward Beacon Press 336 pages $18.00 After the Florida fiasco that ended the 2000 election season, lawmakers everywhere are turning their attention to the...

BOMBS AWAY!(bombing exercises in Puerto Rico)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
August 11, 2001... On July 29, the citizens of Vieques, Puerto Rico, voted overwhelmingly to force the U.S. Navy to halt its bombing exercises on the island. Unfortunately for the Puerto Ricans, however, the vote was nonbinding. Who should be the final arbiter in...

PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY.(survey on smoking)(Brief Article)
August 11, 2001... Who's to blame for health problems created by smoking? It's not the tobacco companies, according to a majority of adults polled by Gallup. Sixty-one percent said smokers are "mostly" or "completely" responsible for ailments attributed to...

HARD SELL.(public opinion on stem-cell research)(Brief Article)(Polling Data)
August 11, 2001... Although President Bush has yet to make up his mind about whether federal funding should be used in stem-cell research, a majority of Americans (60 percent) think it should, and 36 percent think it should not, according to an ABC...

IT MIGHT BE THE ECONOMY ... OR NOT.(Brief Article)
August 11, 2001... Maybe it's just too darned hot to think about the nation's economy. Right now, Americans are ambivalent about the economy and the President's economic performance, according to a recent survey by ABC News and The Washington Post. President Bush...

SPENDING SPREE OR NEST EGG?(Brief Article)
August 11, 2001... For millions of Americans, the check is in the mail--literally. Taxpayers have begun receiving advance payment checks on taxes owed for the 2001 filing year, and 41 percent of voters surveyed by Opinion Dynamics for the Fox News Channel said...

The Odd Question.(public poll on intelligent life on other planets and Washington D.C.)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
August 11, 2001... BEAM ME UP Do you believe there is intelligent life on other planets? YES 54% NO 30 NOT SURE 16 ...

ARE TWO ELECTION HATS TOO MANY?
August 11, 2001... Should the state officials responsible for certifying election results be required to avoid even the appearance of a conflict of interest? Discussion of that question was missing from the long list of election law changes recently recommended...

THE PRESSURES THAT CRUSHED GREENS' DREAMS.
August 11, 2001... In 1990, when the House was debating legislation to overhaul the Clean Air Act, an aide to Rep. John D. Dingell was asked why the Michigan Democrat relentlessly fought every attempt to impose new air pollution restrictions on cars. Noting that...

The Sound and the Fury.(preparing for elections)(Brief Article)
August 11, 2001... All good times must come to mi end. The Wall Street Journal's John Harwood reports that the "low background rumble" at this week's National Governors Association meetings was "the sound of gathering political storms." The nation's governors...

Teeing Off.(Neil Oxman working as a caddie for the PGA)(Brief Article)
August 11, 2001... If friends of Philadelphia-based Democratic strategist Neil Oxman haven't seen him "around town recently, it's not because he's off writing TV ads for some out-of-state campaign." Rather, for nine of the past 11 weeks, Oxman has "been working...

Skupin Skipping.(Michael Skupin)(Brief Article)
August 11, 2001... Kill a pig, sure. Run for office, well.... Former Survivor contestant Michael Skupin announced he won't mount a GOP challenge to Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich. Skupin had said in June that he was considering running. And Republican Gov. John Engler...

Holden a Weak Hand?(Missouri Governor Bob Holden)(Brief Article)
August 11, 2001... Little more than six months after it began, Missouri Gov. Bob Holden's "rocky tenure" has fueled "speculation and rumor" that the Democrat may face a primary fight in 2004. Former Gov. Roger Wilson, Auditor Claire McCaskill, and Attorney...

The Congressional News Network?(Cable News Network's plans to lure conservative viewers)(Brief Article)
August 11, 2001... Couldn't his anchors just say "fair and balanced" all the time? New CNN chief Walter Isaacson "huddled with mouse and Senate GOP leaders last week to seek advice on how to attract more right-leaning viewers to the sagging network." House...

Empty BACKPAC.(former Sen. Robert Kerrey's political action committee; New Hampshire appearance by Sen. John F. Kerry)(Brief Article)
August 11, 2001... Maybe he'll replace it with KNAPSACKPAC. Former Sen. Robert Kerrey, D-Neb., "who until recently had been touted" as a potential 2004 White House contender, "has closed down his leadership" political action committee. In a letter in mid-July,...

LePore-ing Over the Data.(Miami Herald supplies files on 2000 election deleted by office of Palm Beach Elections Supervisor Theresa LePore, Florida)(Brief Article)
August 11, 2001... How about a favor you can recount on? After it was reported that elections workers in Palm Beach County, Fla., "overwrote their only electronic files" of punch card ballots from the 2000 election, The Miami Herald "turned over copies of the...

Quotables.
August 11, 2001... "He doesn't want to hang out with celebrities. He wants to hang out with his wife, which is an interesting new development in Washington." --New York Post's Deborah Orin on President Bush's preferred leisure-time activity (Hardball, MSNBC, 8/6)...

ADD COLORADO To SENATE'S BATTLEGROUND STATES.(Brief Article)
August 11, 2001... There are plenty of long-awaited, high-profile Senate race matchups next year. All those races have been getting a lot of attention. But the reelection bid of GOP Sen. Wayne Allard, a freshman from Republican-leaning Colorado, wasn't drawing...

At his White House farewell party, Bob Weiner told a story about going for a morning jog and seeing a deer walk away from a nasty collision with a truck.(Brief Article)
August 11, 2001... At his White House farewell party, Bob Weiner told a story about going for a morning jog and seeing a deer walk away from a nasty collision with a truck. He compared the deer's experience--"thrashing around and getting wounded from all...

Less time on the road: That's one of the perks for Charles R. Pucie Jr. at his new job in the Washington office of the global public relations firm Fleishman-Hillard Inc.(Brief Article)
August 11, 2001... Less time on the road: That's one of the perks for Charles R. Pucie Jr. at his new job in the Washington office of the global public relations firm Fleishman-Hillard Inc. For the past three years, Pucie, 57, was the spokesman for the Knights of...

Edelman Public Relations Worldwide has added four new faces to its health care practice in Washington.(Brief Article)
August 11, 2001... Edelman Public Relations Worldwide has added four new faces to its health care practice in Washington. Rebecca Reid has closed up her own shop, Rebecca Reid Communications, to become Edelman's vice president of health media relations. "I fell...