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That can be a good thing and a bad one for those within that world. People who have worked with him say that when things are going well and Kerry is confident in his strategy and team--as seems to be the case now--he is a nearly ideal boss, focused on managing the big picture and rarely sweating the details. When things get rocky--like when his campaign was struggling to get its footing last fall--his tendency to consult widely but keep his own counsel can drive aides crazy. "He is famous for keeping people in the dark...
SAMMY'S HILL, a Bridget Jones clone for the Washington crowd by the former Vice President's daughter KRISTIN GORE, 26. Commissioned by Miramax Books, it's about a 26-year-old Senate aide who tags along on her boss's vice-presidential campaign and falls for another Senator's speechwriter...
While Kerkorian spends most of his time at home in Beverly Hills, Calif., plotting his next big deal, he leaves the day-to-day management of his empire to MGM Mirage CEO Terry Lanni, 61, a veteran casino executive who, like his boss, largely shuns the limelight. In a town famous for flashy characters, Lanni, who collects classic sports cars and carved wooden boxes in his spare time, has earned a reputation for integrity. Your good name, he insists, "is the one thing you can't afford to lose." Kerkorian is famous for having "ice water in his veins...
...inventor (James Cromwell) days before his company's new line of "automated domestic assistants"--home androids--is to be unveiled. Because he's the standard cop-hero sociopath and also because he just can't stand robots, Spooner suspects everyone. Dammit, he suspects anything modern. As the U.S. Robots boss (Bruce Greenwood) says, "You would have banned the Internet simply to keep the libraries open." Spooner focuses his skepticism on a prototype droid named Sonny, the only creature in the room with the inventor when he died...
...lucrative quality-crude projects. But others praise Rodriguez (and more radical leftists berate him) for reserving more than a quarter of the $37 billion plan--$10 billion--for foreign investment, mostly in extra-heavy crude, marginal oil fields and Venezuela's massive natural-gas reserves. As one foreign oil boss in Venezuela assures skeptics, "There will always be investment opportunities here...