Yemen's state news agency, Saba, reported that Mr. Saleh had visited members of his inner circle, including the deputy prime minister for interior affairs and the deputy prime minister for defense and homeland security, in two different Saudi hospitals.
Putin's inner circle grew used to accusing Britain of meddling in Russia's internal affairs.
The Executive Committee, which manages the party's internal affairs, in turn elects the 13-member Presidium, which serves as the party's ruling inner circle.
Prolific young novelist Madison Smartt Bell's Ten Indians went to the heart of inner-city affairs.
Ottfried Henning, a senior official in Bonn's ministry for inner-German affairs, recently accused East Germany of openly recruiting Ghanaians to come to West Berlin and selling them tickets on Interflug and Aeroflot.
The criticism of Biden appears to be an attempt to weaken his credentials as one of the only competent members of the Obama administration's foreign affairs inner circle.
Even the eminent, she says, show little sign of the inner consequences of outward affairs.
"Over the past year, the program has made it look as if there is virtually a quid pro quo: If you let 60 Minutes in on the inner working of your affairs, the show's reporters will check their journalistic judgment at the door," she writes.
Active in inner-city and urban affairs for 50 years, Mr. Davison helped establish the field of therapeutic communities.
