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...announce that he was resigning as the President's chief campaign strategist. But Morris, a New Yorker who had always been able to talk his way out of the most embarrassing jams, was so distraught he couldn't speak. A man at home in the campaigner's world of beeper, fax, phone and keyboard, he grabbed his wife's laptop. "He wrote a note on it for them to read that said how much he valued them," said his wife in an exclusive interview with TIME, "and how he hoped they would carry...
...speech on April 22, then met with him roughly a dozen times to work on it. But in San Diego things unraveled when Dole asked for new writers. Soon sections of eloquence were followed by blocks of boilerplate. After more than a dozen drafts, Helprin turned in his beeper and went home to upstate New York. There he issued a statement. It said in part, "Early on I was happy to volunteer to Senator Dole a first draft of an acceptance speech, and he then made it his own...In the end the legitimate and understandable requirements of political speechwriting...
Hanging from his belt is a black two-by-three inch beeper given to him by the Red Cross. Apparently, when Kedlaya isn't tackling the latest math problem, he's driving an ambulance-like vehicle around Boston, helping disaster victims with housing, food, and first aid. As director of disaster services for Friends of the Red Cross, Kedlaya manages 20 Harvard students, dispatching them to fires where people are in need of help. He tells me that he last received a call on his beeper just 10 minutes...
...beeper goes off. Kedlaya squelches it and looks down at the digital display. "A fire in Quincy," he says. My eyes light up in alarm. "Quincy, Mass., not Quincy House," he reassures me. We continue...
...wife, TV talk host Mary Matalin) and the general conflicts besetting mother-magnates--until Eleanor Holmes Norton scolded the group, blessed with hot- and cold-running nannies, for whining. When Hunter-Gault applauded the lack of wonkiness, citing a discussion of male testicles at one table, Andrea Mitchell's beeper went...