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...always had the feeling that there was no one there ((on Rostenkowski's staff)) who really had a good moral compass," says a former House staff member. "Or maybe, to be fair, he never had anyone courageous enough working for him who'd come up to him and say, 'Boss, you can't do that anymore.' " Former Oklahoma Congressman Wes Watkins, who retired four years ago, says a friend once offered him a useful epigram about Washington: "There are some that go to the Capitol and grow, and some that go there and swell." He adds, "Some get power hungry...
...afraid of confrontations," Aguilar says. "He has a lot of experience and power. There is no question who's the boss...
...Green in mid-April. Green had been the president's hand-chosen pick for a post that Rudenstine himself created. News reports suggested that Green, who was charged with fulfilling the Rudenstinian vision of bringing the schools together, had grown tired of the slow, cautious management style of his boss...
...once again. The former chief of staff to the Governor of Arkansas has gone through a transformation since the campaign. Gone are the sweatshirt and slacks. The new Wright can afford an expensive haircut and smart, stylish dresses. Still the same, however, is her fierce loyalty to her old boss. "For 10 years," she says, with a flinty, blue-eyed gaze, "I doubt Bill Clinton was ever gone 15 minutes without me knowing where...
...four tales into a meditation about tough guys with too much or too little time on their hands. What do you talk about before a killing? (Fast food in Amsterdam.) How do you escape a fate worse than death? (With luck and honor.) How do you date your gang boss's wife? (Very carefully.) How do you remove those telltale blood stains from the backseat? (Very quickly.) Spinning delirious variations on familiar film noir conventions and pulling career-best performances from < Travolta, Willis, Thurman and especially Jackson as a Bible-spouting sociopath, Tarantino makes a smart, fatal movie...