Word: alongs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Says Californian Leon Panetta, President Clinton's former chief of staff: "The public right now looks at Congress and sees a lot of meanness and partisanship and people behaving more like it's West Side Story than government by and for the people. So if a Governor comes along who looks as if he's trying to walk down the middle and get things done, that's something they could grow very comfortable with...
...office was 25 ft. from the Governor's office," Davis says of his chief of staff job in 1974. "It took me about a foot a year to get where I was going." Along the way, he had to develop some armor. He was seen by many as one of those hack career candidates, always angling for something, and few people saw a future for a guy who appeared to have taken the same personality course as Walter Mondale. "You had to be there as a friend to see how bad it was for him with all the ridicule [about...
...never confessed to a single regret or second thought and who struts around St. Paul, a big small town, with a retinue of bodyguards, emitting a great air of celebrity, scorning the local press while courting the national media. People do their best to grin and go along with it, but eventually you have to tell him to shut the hell up. He isn't a danger to anybody. He's just big and loud and arrogant. He's a guy wearing a 38-double-D bra on his head, and all we needed was someone to run the government...
...true death count remains uncertain. "There were at least a couple of hundred lying in there," says Daily, who noted he was 150 yds. away. But Kerns says he saw only eight to 10 bodies from 50 yds. away. The Koreans say 300 died in the attack, along with 100 killed earlier by U.S. warplanes...
...Arista Records president Clive Davis made a huge gamble: he invested millions in hip-hop, a genre many viewed as too troubled to be worth the risk. But the grunge bubble went bust, of course, as did a few of the labels betting on it. Today, hip-hop rolls along as comfortably as Puff Daddy does in his Bentley...