Strauss-Kahn Scrum with Maid, the NY County D.A., and Me

One day sometime in autumn,1981, down on the Mall by the Lincoln Memorial and where the Viet Nam Memorial would shortly be unveiled, I joined a college classmate and his rowdy soccer club for a game of - not soccer, but rugby.  Among the players: Cy Vance, Jr.

Cy Vance, Jr. May Throw Out Case Against Strauss-Kahn

Then a law student at Georgetown U., Jr. was noted more for his father's recent stint as Secretary of State under Jimmy Carter (a performance that received mixed reviews), than in his own right.  But it turns out that he is now the Manhattan DA.


And just look at Jr. now!


Although some are heckling him...

Watergate Doug Feaver - You Heard It Here First

Got The Feaver

<< ------ Who's the beatnik?  He's the night city-desk editor who answered the call in the wee hours of Saturday morning June 18th, 1972 about a bungled break-in by some ersatz plumbers at the Watergate apartment & office complex.  39 years... and it seems like only yesterday!

Doug Feaver was my cubicle neighbor in the Post newsroom for 6 months in 1999 while I worked on a "top secret!" editorial technology project for washingtonpost.com. A painstaking, personable, and funny guy, Doug had seen it all - and 'though he was by then only 5 years or so from retirement, he kept up exceedingly well with the rowdy young journo's.

I'd watched my dad build an entire back patio of bricks and railroad ties by hand during the summer of 1973, his energy fueled by the live radio coverage of the U.S. Senate Watergate hearings, chaired by Sam Ervin and starring a cast of astonishing characters ("Abplanalp," anyone?), and a featuring the almost-daily detonation of a new bombshell in the fascinating disintegration of the second Nixon administration.  Years later to be inside the Post newsroom was pretty cool, but to meet Doug was to shake hands with history.  A true newsman's newsman.

Where it all began . . .

"On the average there are roughly fifty burglaries daily in the District of Columbia. Some are reported at length in our newspaper. Most are reported in smallish type in a crime column.

Obviously, this burglary was different."

—Washington Post managing editor Howard Simons in 1973