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...hard-line revolt in a bloody showdown with the former parliament, he is reaping precisely what he sowed. Having chosen to stand above the electoral frenzy and endorse no party, Yeltsin threw his energies into only one contest -- the referendum on a new draft constitution. Yeltsin's popular clout brought in a 58% vote of support for the constitution, which grants him sweeping powers, among them the right to disband the parliament. But the legislative races failed to produce a new guard of professionals who would put constitutional rule and economic reform back on a fast track. Instead...
...movie simply needed my clout to get it made," Spielberg says, and he is not being immodest. Since no filmmaker has a track record like his, none has his power to encourage both a studio and the young mass audience to take a risk on a movie the subject of which is inherently repellent, not to say terrifying...
...emotional effect. There is a kind of morality -- a respect for one's tools and materials and for the intelligence of the beholder's eye -- in the craftsmanship he has deployed. It serves the interests of the tale, not the ego of the teller. In the annals of Hollywood "clout," this is almost as astonishing as the movie itself...
...Cardinal wields immense clout in the hierarchy -- beginning at the top. The Pope and Ratzinger are, says one mid-ranking Vatican official, "two pieces of a puzzle. Without one, the other is not complete." Others point out an obvious primacy. Asked whether the Cardinal in practice was the undisputed No. 2 under the Pontiff, one insider in the Holy See responds, "Intellectually and theologically...
Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger wields enormous clout...