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With an intellect unencumbered by a comparable ego, Stephanopoulos was able to bridge the chasm separating the campaign's often mismatched personalities. He made sure that Hollywood's laid-back producer Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, who made the convention bio-film, was on speaking terms with chain-smoking, laser-intense Grunwald; he doled out face time on television among aspiring talking heads; not least, he soothed the brilliant, tightly coiled gonzo strategist James Carville by watching infomercials and Julia Child with him when Carville was too nervous to work...
...students who participated were facilitators, trained in crowd control and clinic defense. We were trained by the president of the Massachusetts chapter of the National Organization for Women a week before O.R. came to Boston. We learned how to escort women through crowds and how to form a human chain to prevent O.R. from blocking access to the clinic, which is exactly what we did on November...
...accident that two recent books that chart this historical process of alienation -- Why Americans Hate Politics by E.J. Dionne Jr. and Chain Reaction by Thomas Byrne Edsall and Mary Edsall -- served virtually as a blueprint for the successful Clinton-Gore campaign. Yet for Bill Clinton, there is nothing theoretical about this disaffection: the fateful fissure runs down his soul...
...Yale Corporation is currently compiling a list of 300 to 400 candidates to serve as Schmidt's successor. Schmidt resigned last spring to work with entrepreneur Christopher Whittle on designing a chain of private schools...
...play more funny than awe-inspiring. The final scene, a bitter exchange between Jason and Medea, is a case in point. The chariot from Euripides' play is here replaced with a gargantuan elevator/space ship device complete with glowing neon tubes. Medea, suspended in this contraption, curses Jason through the chain link fence while industrial music crashes away and lights flash. Dwarfed by the "E.T"-like production, the exchange itself seems rather trifling...