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...words, concepts, phrases that relate to the universe, and I stared in the mirror, and I delivered two or three sentences on each topic, in rapid fire. For each word, I would come up with two or three sentences that were informative, interesting and at best a little bit fun to listen to. I worked it. Then on the next interview, I handed them a sound bite. I essentially trained myself in sound bites. They can't edit it; they don't need to edit it. It's self-contained. You just slot it right in. It fits...
...natural performer, he looked a bit like Leo McKern, who played Mortimer's most famous barrister, the blustery, homespun Horace Rumpole of the Bailey. The TV series ran in England, off and on, from 1978 to 1992 and repeated its success...
...easy to see a big personality like Emanuel blending into the background--a quality every bit as important as top-notch organizational and political skills to being a successful chief of staff. The best of them are the ones who, by all outward appearances, have no motives or identity outside those of the President. "You are hired for your judgment. You are not hired with an independent agenda," explains Ken Duberstein, who held the job for six months under Ronald Reagan. "When you speak, the voice people hear is the President's voice, not your own." Indeed, if you ever...
...centers exerting their own gravitational pull. Obama has established a White House office for health reform, to be overseen by incoming Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Daschle, and one for energy and climate-change policy, headed by former Environmental Protection Agency chief Carol Browner. It's still a bit unclear whether all these West Wing czars will be making policy or managing it, or both, but the Cabinet will want its say as well. "They have a lot of big brains and big personalities with what appears to be overlapping portfolios," says Josh Bolten, who was George W. Bush...
...debt due in May. It needs to get itself time to sell off some of its properties like The Boston Globe. Having Slim come to the rescue may be a bit of an embarrassment to The Times. His past business practices may be pristine, but there have been reasonable observations that they have not been...