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...final stop was Yekaterinburg, formerly known as Sverdlovsk, the provincial city in the Urals where the Bolsheviks assassinated Russia's last Czar, Nicholas II, and his family in 1918. It is also the place where Boris Yeltsin rose to power as a party boss: he was there in 1979 when a leak from a biological-warfare plant released a cloud of deadly anthrax virus that killed 64 people...
...days. It's very difficult for a quant who thinks of himself as a Ph.D. from a top-notch school and comes to Wall Street, and a high school dropout screams at him and calls him an idiot." His colleague, an engineer, agrees: "Many times, what your boss is saying is just hilarious. It's wrong, you know; mathematically it makes no sense. You can't even say, 'Look, you don't know what you're talking about...
...National Committee shelled out to Bush's pollsters in 1989, some of which was for polling in the 1988 campaign. Even Richard Wirthlin, who as Ronald Reagan's pollster was considered to have almost mystical influence over the White House, didn't take the public's temperature for his boss as often as Greenberg does for Clinton...
...does the reformist Teamster boss have so much real estate...
...been accused on more than one occasion of adopting a philosophy in which the ends justify the means. Since their motives are pure, the thinking goes, their actions are probably unassailable. That may be one area in which George Stephanopoulos would be better off not to identify with the boss...