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...Democrats seek to recapture the Senate, they might want to look to Cleland as the candidate with the model playbook. This year's Republican version calls for tagging Democratic congressional candidates as hopelessly liberal, but Guy Millner, the millionaire businessman who is challenging Cleland for the seat of retiring Georgia legend Sam Nunn, is having a hard time making it stick. Millner notes darkly that "the Jane Fondas, the Ted Kennedys, all these kinds of people would love to see Max Cleland get elected." But so far, Georgia's increasingly conservative electorate seems to be resisting Millner's ideological barrage...
They are, in a way, easy marks. Primo, the chef, is a shy and brooding purist, utterly unable to compromise one of his exquisite risottos, no matter what the market demands. Secondo, the maitre d', shoots his cuffs with elegant panache but is not quite the shrewd and worldly businessman he thinks he is. When Pascal proposes that they throw a scrumptious, sumptuous banquet, promising to supply a celebrity (Louis Prima, the old-time band leader) whose patronage, Pascal assures them, will bring saving glamour and publicity to their enterprise, they invest the last of their capital in the plan...
...period beginning in September 1995, Ross Perot held a series of private meetings with fellow supporters of the third-party movement, ostensibly seeking their advice on whether and how to run again for President. Consistently, the group, which included former Connecticut Governor and Senator Lowell Weicker and New York businessman Thomas Galisano, warned Perot that if he ran again, he could no longer be a one-man band. This time, the advisers said, he had to bring national-level politicians into the fold. He had to listen to their policy prescriptions and incorporate their ideas into his Reform Party...
Puzo now keeps his wagering within the family. "He acts as bookie for his children, who will gamble on sports events, and he will take whatever side they don't want," says friend Speed Vogel, a retired businessman and co-author of Joseph Heller's memoir, No Laughing Matter...
...from this engaging legal drama to spin out a whiny and exceedingly slow-moving melodrama of Lily White's fretful childhood and early adult years. Her younger sister, we learn at great length, was pretty and petulant and absorbed all their parents' attention; her father was a Jewish businessman who tried unsuccessfully to be a Wasp; the husband Lily eventually married was handsome but shallow...