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Zecha is very much the anticorporate boss. He shuns manuals and encourages staff to employ unobtrusive, personal touches to make each visitor's stay memorable. Because many guests come from stressful, corporate and urban surroundings, Zecha tries to create the opposite environment. "The whole point is to keep things as 'not institutional' as possible," he says...
...behind the throne. There is no doubt about it. Though angioplasties are becoming as important on his daily schedule as, say, lunch, Cheney is poised to become the most powerful, influential and involved vice president in history. How did this happen? First, he's got the trust of his boss by virtue of being a close family friend. The Bushes know the Cheneys very well, and this relationship clearly makes their working relationship smooth. Clinton and Gore also managed such a relationship for awhile (think "Boys on the Bus"), but it broke down in later years due to, well...
...Cheney's John Henry routine also highlights his boss's more easygoing work ethic, reinforcing a stereotype that our new President doesn't like to overtax himself. Bush routinely takes an hour or more each day for exercise, is out of the office by 6, keeps a light schedule on the road and starts the weekend early, on Friday afternoons. Compared with Cheney, some critics say, he looks like a part-timer...
Bush aides have long since perfected the art of eye rolling to meet suggestions that Cheney, rather than his boss, is the man in charge. But there is no argument from the White House that this President has a way of doing business that is different from what Washington has seen in years. While the Clinton Administration seemed to thrive on chaos, Bush's is self-consciously calm, efficient, focused and results oriented. "He doesn't want our time to be White House time all the time," says chief of staff Andy Card. "He wants people to have a life...
...alternative were losing Western aid. At the same time, the perils of even local prosecution are becoming clear. Not long ago, gunmen fired (unsuccessfully) at the vehicle carrying the new Interior Minister; earlier, the driver of the new head of state security was shot as he waited for his boss outside Djindjic's office...