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In the US' capital, where the appearance of virtue is always for sale to the highest bidder, politicians and lobbyists invariably claim some noble goal to justify even the most sordid transaction. But counterfeit idealism wasn't the style of 63-year-old Edward J. von Kloberg III, the flamboyant lobbyist for some of the world's flamboyant dictators who killed himself in May. Here, Levine presents a brief profile of the man who lived without apology and died for love, ending a career that was unique in modern Washington.
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Shame Is for Sissies
IN THE NATION'S capital, where the appearance of virtue is always for sale to the highest bidder, politicians and lobbyists invariably claim some noble goal to justify even the most sordid transaction. But counterfeit idealism wasn't the styl...
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