First Lady Contenders Who Are Women First- January 29, 2004 The wives of the Democratic candidates have been something of a visual relief to those of us who have overdosed on fabulousness. Enough of the long, waxed legs of the Oscars and the silk-sheathed golden globes of the Golden Globes, enough of Paris, Nicole, J. Lo and Jennifer. Here come the worthy women of politics.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2004/01/29/AR2005033112552.html?nav=r... Not Putting Their Money Where His Mouth Is- January 22, 2004 The ebbing of Howard Dean was a palpable relief to most of New York's big Democratic donors. "We are alive!" one leading fundraiser for the Democratic National Committee exulted the morning after Iowa. "I've finally got a product I can work with," was the way John Kerry fundraiser Toni Goodale put it.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2004/01/22/AR2005033112456.html?nav=r... Paul O'Neill, Odd Duck Out of Water- January 15, 2004 Former treasury secretary Paul O'Neill has chosen to tell his story about his two unhappy years in the Bush Cabinet in a form that's as weird as he is: the Third Person Memoir.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2004/01/15/AR2005033112235.html?nav=r... The Real Reality Show: An '80s Survivor- January 8, 2004 You would think in the age of 911 that no one could be more beside the point than Donald Trump. Yet tonight he gets to dust off his act again, playing his cartoonish self in a new reality show, "The Apprentice," in which a bunch of out-of-town entrepreneur-wannabes compete to work for him.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2004/01/08/AR2005033112457.html?nav=r... A Month Full of Dates With Destiny- January 1, 2004 January is the month when the other shoe drops. The news that the Bush administration just got itself a special prosecutor -- a man described as "Eliot Ness with a Harvard law degree and a sense of humor" -- to investigate the Valerie Plame leak is just another cause for people in power to sing "O Crappy Day!" as the new year rolls around.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2004/01/01/AR2005033112573.html?nav=r... |