Where There's Schmoke

May, 1994

baltimore mayor kurt schmoke has a pal in the white house, a plan to decriminalize drugs and a career on fireGeorgetown, One Month after the election of Bill Clinton. The center of the universe. The home of Katharine Graham, chairman of the Washington Post Company. An A-list party. Secret Service on the rooftops, gawkers across the street behind yellow police tape.One by one cabs pull up to the door. Cabs, not limousines. If New York is about money, if Chicago is about politics, if Los Angeles i...