Gossip, speculation, and scuttlebutt about politics.

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• Newsweek's "Exclusive" 
  Jack Shafer Oct. 9, 1997
  
• Dueling Headlines 
  Jack Shafer Sept. 30, 1997
  
• The Chow-down in Vegas Town? 
  Jack Shafer Sept. 25, 1997
  
• Don't Shoot! We're Animals! 
  Jack Shafer Sept. 25, 1997
  
• Pay as You Read 
  Jack Shafer Sept. 18, 1997
  
• Here's Spud in Your Eye 
  Jack Shafer Sept. 18, 1997
  
• Lives of the Saints 
  Jack Shafer Sept. 11, 1997
  
• White House Bangs-to-Bucks 
  Jack Shafer Sept. 11, 1997
  
• Diana Overkill, Part II 
  Jack Shafer Sept. 10, 1997
  
• Diana Overkill, Part I 
  Jack Shafer Sept. 10, 1997
  
• Microsoft, Too 
  Jack Shafer Sept. 10, 1997
  
• There Once Was a Columnist From Nantucket 
  Jack Shafer Sept. 9, 1997
  
• This Is Judgment Day 
  Jack Shafer Aug. 29, 1997
  
• Smells Like Teen Hype 
  Jack Shafer Aug. 27, 1997
  
• Death and Sex and the New York Times 
  Jack Shafer Aug. 25, 1997
  
• And What Exactly Is That Supposed to Mean? 
  Jack Shafer Aug. 25, 1997
  
• Picture This 
  Jack Shafer Aug. 19, 1997
  
• Impersonnel Department 
  Jack Shafer Aug. 18, 1997
  
• All the King's Men 
  Jack Shafer Aug. 12, 1997
  
• Politics Is Like a Metaphor 
  Jack Shafer Aug. 7, 1997
  
• Hello, Mrs. Graham. Get Us Rewrite. 
  Jack Shafer Aug. 7, 1997
  
• Capital Games 
  Jack Shafer Aug. 1, 1997
  
• Eat My Words 
  Jack Shafer July 29, 1997
  
• Which Is It? 
  Jack Shafer July 24, 1997
  
• Next Semester, "Presidential Pardons 101" 
  Jack Shafer July 22, 1997
  
• Three or Four's the Charm? 
  Jack Shafer July 18, 1997
  
• Say Something Once, Why Say It Again? 
  Jack Shafer July 18, 1997
  
• True North 
  Jack Shafer July 14, 1997
  
• Clinton Administration's Official Bumpersticker 
  Jack Shafer June 26, 1997
  
• Two-Headed Newt 
  Jack Shafer June 25, 1997
  
• Nicotine Fiends 
  Jack Shafer June 23, 1997
  
• Payback (New York Times, 6-19) 
  Jack Shafer June 20, 1997
  
• Dueling Headlines 
  Jack Shafer June 19, 1997
  
• Brock Agonistes 
  Jack Shafer June 18, 1997
  
• Sanitized for Your Viewing Protection 
  Jack Shafer June 17, 1997
  
• What, No Breast Job? 
  Jack Shafer June 17, 1997
  
• No. 1 Woods 
  Jack Shafer June 13, 1997
  
• The NPR Crisis That Ain't 
  Jack Shafer June 12, 1997
  
• Dueling Headlines 
  Jack Shafer June 12, 1997
  
• What Thomas Carlyle Really Said 
  Jack Shafer June 11, 1997
  
• That's Awfully White of You 
  Jack Shafer June 11, 1997
  
• Hackworth: A Reliable Source? 
  Jack Shafer June 7, 1997
  
• David Horowitz: Sore Winner 
  Jack Shafer June 6, 1997
  
• The Torah: Down for the Count? 
  Jack Shafer June 4, 1997
  
• Innuendo and Out the Other 
  Jack Shafer June 3, 1997
  
• Blair and Chips 
  Jack Shafer June 3, 1997
  
• Gene Fool 
  Jack Shafer June 3, 1997
  
• Susan, Sidney, and the Revolving Door 
  Jack Shafer June 2, 1997
  
• Don't Believe the Hype 
  Jack Shafer May 30, 1997
  
• Can't Reich Get It Right? 
  Jack Shafer May 30, 1997
  
• State of Siege 
  Jack Shafer May 29, 1997
  
• The Capital-Gains Myth Lives! 
  Jack Shafer May 28, 1997
  
• Mr. Stewart's Neighborhood 
  Jack Shafer May 28, 1997