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In the Loop: A guide to grudges for holiday hosts in official Washington

Washington is a town where lots of folks have a "history" with one another -- a history that's not always the most pleasant. That makes the task of holiday dinner-party seating an especially exacting science, since there's always the risk of a food ...

From AL KAMEN, Al Kamen: In The Loop (Washington Post),  22 Nov 2009

Related Topics: White House,  Barack Obama,  Hadassah Lieberman,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Olympia Snowe

A respectfully respectful greeting in Japan

But the real problem was not the bow. People in Japan bow all the time in greeting. The real problem was the bow and the handshake, which is simply not done. You bow or you shake, but not both. (Maybe that's why Akihito was grinning so much.) Reporters ...

From AL KAMEN, Al Kamen: In The Loop (Washington Post),  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: US State Department,  White House,  King Abdullah,  Robert Wood,  International Atomic Energy Agency

In the Loop: C Street house no longer fully tax-exempt

Several members of the House and Senate live there, renting upstairs rooms from a group apparently affiliated with the "Fellowship," a secretive group that organizes the National Prayer Breakfast. Ensign, who recently moved out, lived in the tidy brick ...

From AL KAMEN, Al Kamen: In The Loop (Washington Post),  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: White House,  Senate Foreign Relations Committee,  U.S. Congress,  Tom Coburn,  Doug Hampton

In the Loop: Commerce Secretary Locke critical of visa process

Commerce Secretary Gary Locke is off to Asia this week, stopping in Singapore to join Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton for some regional meetings and then head off with her and President Obama to Beijing. That should give her plenty of time to ...

From AL KAMEN, Al Kamen: In The Loop (Washington Post),  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Hillary Rodham Clinton,  Boeing,  Barack Obama,  White House,  Commerce Department

No monkey business around Ms. Goodall

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar e-mailed all headquarters folks last week to invite them to hear Goodall talk about her new book: "Hope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued From the Brink." "I strongly urge you to join ...

From AL KAMEN, Al Kamen: In The Loop (Washington Post),  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Ken Salazar,  Fish and Wildlife Service,  Barack Obama,  Government Accountability Office,  Condoleezza Rice

Just what we need: A FEMA for Afghanistan

Bowen, a former aide to George W. Bush when he was governor of Texas and later in the White House, has produced a paper calling for, among other things, the creation of an entity to coordinate aid to Afghanistan so as not to repeat the chaotic and ...

From AL KAMEN, Al Kamen: In The Loop (Washington Post),  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: White House,  Barack Obama

Shah to be named head of USAID

Under Secretary of Agriculture for Research, Education and Economics Rajiv Shah, is going to be named to head the Agency for International Development, sources familiar with the choice said Tuesday. Shah, 36, is a medical doctor who worked for the Bill ...

From AL KAMEN AND MARY BETH SHERIDAN, The Washington Post,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: United States Agency for International Development,  Melinda Gates,  Al Gore

In the Loop: Join your fellow NSA fans on Facebook

The agency started using the social-networking Web site back in 2007 and finds it "a useful tool to help answer potential applicant questions," a spokesman said. So far, more than 2,400 Facebook users have proclaimed themselves "fans." Some of them ...

From AL KAMEN, Al Kamen: In The Loop (Washington Post),  4 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Facebook Inc.,  National Security Agency,  U.S. Senate,  New York Public Library,  Barack Obama

In the Loop: Afghanistan's sudden population drop

President Obama is still working hard trying to figure out the next steps in the very difficult war in Afghanistan. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top commander in the field, is pressing for an additional 40,000 troops. Obama's top advisers are split. ...

From AL KAMEN, Al Kamen: In The Loop (Washington Post),  1 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Central Intelligence Agency,  Barack Obama,  Stanley A. McChrystal,  Census Bureau,  Taliban

In the Loop

The plaque, which cost $27,388 plus tens of thousands more for shipping and installation, had an excerpt from a speech she gave about "expanding the circle of human dignity to encompass all human beings -- men and women, boys and girls . . ." Then ...

From AL KAMEN, Al Kamen: In The Loop (Washington Post),  30 Oct 2009

Related Topics: United States Agency for International Development,  Hillary Rodham Clinton,  George W. Bush,  White House,  Barack Obama

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