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...first draft, largely written by Mari Maseng Will, was too strident, too mean, "too much red meat." He called in a Senate staff member to rewrite . and rewrite. When he rose to address the Concord audience gathered in the historic hall of the state capitol, he opened his binder, stared at the pages for a moment and looked seasick. He turned a page, then another, as though they were out of order and he was not sure where to begin. For half an hour he lurched between anecdotes and themes with no transitions. Scattered throughout were homages to Buchanan...
...seasoned social activist like Achtenberg. "San Francisco was one of the first cities in the nation to test whether people who aren't professional politicians can run governments as well as or better than politicians who have been in office for years and years," says independent pollster David Binder. "What's going on now is a referendum on whether that was a good thing." So far that referendum is just about a dead heat, with Jordan slightly ahead at around 29%. But 20% of voters are still undecided...
...Briefcase: Sorry, a backpack just won't do. Farrell suggests purchasing some kind of leather binder or small briefcase for interviews. "It doesn't have to be an expensive Chase briefcase or anything, just something nice and simple. You're going to want one in the business world anyway...
After almost an hour of emotional outbursts, the expert came on for five minutes (after rejecting a fake-leather binder offered to her by a staff member "to make you look more authoritative"). As soon as the show ended, guards whisked all the participants offstage and out of the building. "There was no chance for them to decompress or come back into the real world after what was an emotional experience," the guest recalls. "There was a real assembly-line quality. It was ruthless...
...sped from stadium to stadium in his cream- colored Mercedes, he gave clenched-fist salutes and spoke solemnly to the faithful. His tones were alternately regal and schoolmasterish, his jokes slow to develop, and much of his dry but earnest text came straight out of a yellow-and-white binder labeled BRIEFING NOTES -- CONFIDENTIAL...