- 'The smartest woman I ever knew'
- Philly Clout
THERE WAS NO neutral zone around Carol Ann Campbell. She'd make you take a side.
But her passing yesterday after an extended illness may have drawn the one reaction that her allies and adversaries could all agree on: "She'll be missed," they all said.
- It's official: The president of the United States and his aides are above the law
- Obama, McCain: We'll work together
- Letters: What an inauguration ticket would mean to me
MAYOR NUTTER tried last week to buttonhole every official in Washington who had an unspent dime in his budget.
By all accounts, he did pretty well. He met with Congress members, U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's staff and members of President-elect Barack Obama's transition team.
- I BECAME a civilian again in 1968. It should have been a breeze. I had never left the United States in my three-year Army hitch. But the transition was trickier than I had imagined.
- A FIRE ALARM went off in our building just as the mayor was laying out the details of the city's financial crisis to our editorial board.
- SHE WOULD have left the house in the dark to take up her post at the polling place. By 6:45 a.m., the minority inspector and majority inspector would be in place at the table. The binders would be ready, the machines would be humming.
- IN THE dry cleaners yesterday, a guy asked me what I thought of Chase Utley's profane exultation at the end of the Phillies victory parade.
- THIS IS ABOUT that kid who sat next to you in class for the first few weeks of the semester.
- CALL ME stupid, but the economy is not the issue at the forefront of my concerns right now. I understand that people are hurting and that we are caught up in the candidates' dueling tax plans and economic-policy briefs. With the stock market tanking and the jobless figure rising daily, the economy understandably commands our attention.
- WE WERE teenagers the last time we were together, gathered around the piano in my mother's living room. This was 1962. Dione Larue, as she was known then, was not quite 17 but already a gifted pianist and lead singer for our little group of gospel-singing teenagers.
- PAT BUCHANAN AND I have this in common. We were wrong about Colin Powell. Buchanan figured Powell was a true believer who could be trusted to mouth the mantras of the conservative canon at a time such as this.
- THEY NEVER tell journalism students that we may have to actually know something someday. I was told that, if I majored in journalism, I could take "math for idiots" and "applied science" and still earn a degree in a subject with so many syllables that I would sound really smart.
- JOHN McCAIN knew more about collateral damage than the grunts who kept his plane aloft. Ground crews never have to do flyovers. They never have to see the burned-out villages or acres of crops that sometimes go up in flames along with their intended targets.
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