Word: chairman
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...Monica was driven forward by outsiders and scandal prospectors of every kind, from the anti-Clinton tycoon Richard Mellon Scaife to the freelance spider Lucianne Goldberg and the Jupiter of sleaze, Larry Flynt. "There's a cottage industry of digging up dirt and slinging mud," says Kyle McSlarrow, chairman of Quayle 2000. "The candidates themselves will bend over backward to stay away from it, but they've lost control...
...Thomas Jefferson--will inoculate future candidates against damage. Clinton has made "remarkable scandal commonplace," says Republican consultant Alex Castellanos. "Now to get in trouble, it wouldn't have to be sex with farm animals but with alien farm animals." Ed Gillespie, an adviser to Ohio Representative John Kasich, chairman of the House Budget Committee and would-be President, says, "The public's definition of character has changed. They'd like the President to be an upstanding person. But what they really want to know is, What are your issues? What stand do you take...
...Party candidates. Last year in Missouri, they ran ads suggesting that G.O.P. victories would lead to church bombings and cross burnings; in Maryland, they grossly distorted the civil rights record of our candidate for Governor. Meanspirited racial appeals have no place in politics, nor in your magazine. JIM NICHOLSON, Chairman Republican National Committee Washington...
CELL FORWARDING It's one of the reasons cell-phone users give out their numbers to only a select few: they have to pay for every incoming call. But last week William Kennard, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, pledged support for a more traditional system, in which the person dialing foots the entire bill. For the moment, though, wireless callers can save with bundled digital plans from AirTouch or Sprint PCS, which don't charge for the first incoming minute, and with Nextel, which charges by the second rather than rounding up to the next minute like most other...
...late 1997 Ballard, now a multimillionaire, retired as chairman of his company, but he's confident that his successors can fulfill his vision. He has already turned many doubters into believers. Science colleagues who were once "embarrassed to be seen with me at professional symposia," he says, now call upon him to give speeches. "Be impatient," he counseled students at British Columbia's University of Victoria as he accepted an honorary degree last year. "Challenge the normal. Dare to be in a hurry to change things for the better...