Email Author Jason Vest

1999 Stories by Jason Vest

• Gary Ruskin's Christmas Present

  published December 28, 1999

  WASHINGTON—There is nothing mirthful, festive, or jolly about Office 3A at 1611 Connecticut Avenue NW. Except, perhaps, the man who has... More >>

• Hillary’s Anti-Union, Slumlord Pals

  published December 14, 1999

  WASHINGTON—In their own neoliberal, yuppified way, Bill and Hillary Clinton continue to prove the adage that the longer married couples stay... More >>

• Pulp Legislation

  published November 30, 1999

  WASHINGTON—This town is incredibly sexually repressed, and hardly a session of Congress passes without a legislative attempt,... More >>

• The Rogue Candidate

  published November 16, 1999

  Washington, D.C.-That Malcolm Stevenson 'Steve' Forbes Jr. continues to exist as a presidential candidate is almost an allegory for the... More >>

• Alien Toxins

  published November 9, 1999

  WASHINGTON—The story ends—for now, anyway—with a piece of paper dated September 20, quietly conveyed two weeks ago to the... More >>

• Pat's Tattered Army

  published November 2, 1999

  FALLS CHURCH, VIRGINIA—Ostensibly, what took place here at the Doubletree Hotel last week was merely Brigadeführer Patrick... More >>

• 'Dollar Bill' Bucks the Odds

  published September 7, 1999

  Washington — The Democratic nomination would seem to be Al Gore's to blow. Despite his probable ascendency, however, the myriad... More >>

• Tap, Tap . . . Who's There?

  published August 10, 1999

  Washington— The collective ear of the capital-in-the-throes-of- summer-doldrums has been hopelessly cocked toward New York. Insipid... More >>

• Bickering Buddhists

  published July 20, 1999

  Bloomington, Indiana— Having just had its national profile raised by a hate crime, this small midwestern city is looking forward to a... More >>

• Summer of Smith

  published July 13, 1999

  Bloomington, Indiana— While this was the penultimate stop on Benjamin "August" Smith's suicidal circuit ride of racist murder from... More >>

• Not So Approachable

  published July 6, 1999

  Washington—If ever a phrase has been worn out in Clintonian Washington, it's "attorney-client privilege." however, even as ken Starr's probe... More >>

• Balkans Beachhead

  published June 29, 1999

  Washington— It was late in the day when the industrial contractor called. "We're ready to do business in Kosovo," he told the senior... More >>

• Stand-Up Conspiracist

  published June 15, 1999

  Washington— The baby looked utterly horrified upon beholding the approaching man in a dark suit and even darker glasses. And who... More >>

• Human Shields For Clinton

  published June 8, 1999

  Washington— If ever there was an example of wishful thinking being realized, President Clinton's address to graduating Air Force... More >>

• War of the Words

  published May 25, 1999

  Truth is the first casualty in war, as the old cliché goes, but in the case of Kosovo, truth must be unscathed, since there is no war.... More >>

• The Real Rambouillet

  published May 11, 1999

  Press Clips was not going to write about Kosovo this week. However, the sight of State Department spinmeister Jamie Rubin defiling the atmosphere... More >>

• Paper-Thin Reporting

  published May 4, 1999

  In the days after the Littleton shooting, Robert Giles, director of the Freedom Forum's Media Studies Center, issued a press release decreeing... More >>

• Wag This!

  published April 20, 1999

  Washington— Though none of the president's men (and this includes you, Madeleine) had, by last week's end, apparently even... More >>

• New York's Kosovo Kingpin

  published April 13, 1999

  Washington, D.C.— Though he hasn't been on the floor of the House of Representatives since he left in 1988, Joseph DioGuardi,... More >>

• Clinton Bombs Again

  published April 6, 1999

  Washington— Bill Clinton isn't the first chief executive in U.S. history to curtail democracy and human rights abroad ostensibly in... More >>

• Ferro's Army?

  published March 23, 1999

  Washington— The impending arrival here of a new, relatively minor consular official rarely attracts much attention. There is, however, one... More >>

• The Nose Knows

  published March 9, 1999

  Despite all the bilge that's gushed through institutional Washington over the past year about the importance of "honesty" and "accountability"... More >>

• Rehnquist's Glass House

  published January 12, 1999

  Washington— It seems only fitting that the final act of the Clinton Impeachment Saga should highlight the role of a judge who garbs himself... More >>