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April 30, 2000

Diaper Diplomacy

As part of my never-ending and so far entirely fruitless campaign to get high-ranking Clinton administration officials to change my children's diapers, I recently dragooned Jamie Rubin to my baby girl's room in order to teach him a thing or two about the real world.

For those of you not keeping up with the latest shifts in State Department personnel, a primer: Rubin, who was Madeline Albright's assistant secretary of state for public affairs and her close adviser--as well as a C-Span media-briefing sex god--recently gave up his high-powered job and all its high-powered accouterments to follow his wife to London, where he will care for his new baby while his wife works.
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