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Irene Vilar, a mother at last after 15 abortions

Loretta, a self-assured and quietly focused 5-year-old, hides squiggly line drawings under the furniture at a relative's home in Alexandria. Lolita, a high-spirited 3-year-old, sways to Beethoven's "F端r Elise." Mami scoops up both daughters. They ...

From MANUEL ROIG-FRANZIA, The Washington Post,  30 Oct 2009

Lunch at the 'Power Section'

Table 45, tucked discreetly behind the servers' station, always goes to Steve Elmendorf, a hot hand these days in Democratic lobbying circles. He can see everyone from there; everyone can't necessarily see him. The influential Republican lobbyist Mark ...

From MANUEL ROIG-FRANZIA, The Washington Post,  20 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Tom Daschle,  U.S. Republican Party,  Citigroup,  White House,  Dick Cheney

Bloomberg Takes on NRA

Michael Bloomberg, who has a security detail on New York's subways, helped found Mayors Against Illegal Guns, which has members in 40 states. In the battle over concealed weapons crossing state lines, the powerful NRA lobby lost to New York Mayor ...

From MANUEL ROIG-FRANZIA, The Washington Post,  5 Aug 2009
Related Topics: National Rifle Association,  Michael Bloomberg,  U.S. Senate,  U.S. Republican Party,  John Thune

Allen Andersson Struck It Rich, and Then Struck Out in Honduran Politics

Richer each time, and ever less interested in being rich. It's almost all evaporated now, more than $300 million, but Andersson still sits smiling in the sunny living room of the Kalorama manse he can no longer afford. He blew his dough on things that ...

From MANUEL ROIG-FRANZIA, The Washington Post,  14 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Manuel Zelaya,  Mike Farrell,  Bianca Jagger,  Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Politicians' Scandals Elevate the Profile of a Spiritual Haven on C Street SE

Nothing hints at its secrets. It blends into the streetscape, tucked behind the Library of Congress, a few steps from the Cannon House Office Building, a few more steps to the Capitol. This is just the way its residents want it to be. Almost invisible. ...

From MANUEL ROIG-FRANZIA, The Washington Post,  26 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Mark Sanford,  U.S. Congress,  John Ensign,  U.S. Republican Party,  Tom Coburn

Resignation Drumbeat Begins

South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford admits to an affair with a woman from Argentina. Media reports circulated earlier in the week when the governor could not be located by staff or family. Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or other ...

From PHILIP RUCKER AND MANUEL ROIG-FRANZIA, The Washington Post,  25 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Mark Sanford,  U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Democratic Party

South Carolina's governor admits to affair

It all started innocently, the South Carolina governor said, when he and a woman struck up a conversation eight years ago. She confided in him about being separated from her husband and Mark Sanford provided comfort, counseling her to get back together ...

From PHILIP RUCKER AND MANUEL ROIG-FRANZIA, Boston Globe,  25 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Mark Sanford,  U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Congress

S.C. Governor Admits to An Extramarital Affair

It all started innocently, the South Carolina governor said, when he and a woman struck up a conversation eight years ago. She confided in him about being separated from her husband, and Mark Sanford provided comfort, advising her to get back together ...

From PHILIP RUCKER AND MANUEL ROIG-FRANZIA, The Washington Post,  24 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Mark Sanford,  U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Congress

A Killer's Charmed life

He pads in his socks across finely woven Persian carpets -- "This one would be worth $100,000 if it were in better shape," he remarks offhandedly. He passes the buttery soft Le Corbusier leather sofas arranged by his interior designer and the burbling ...

From MANUEL ROIG-FRANZIA, The Washington Post,  29 May 2009
Related Topics: Thomas Jefferson

Brooksley Born, the Cassandra of the Derivatives Crisis

As head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in the late '90s, Born would wake up at night "in a cold sweat,"; her fears, as we know too well, came to pass. Brooksley Born in 1964, the first female president of the Stanford Law Review. She was ...

From MANUEL ROIG-FRANZIA, The Washington Post,  25 May 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama

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