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...victory. Thune talks of the influence he would have with the White House; Johnson, of the importance of keeping Daschle in control of the Senate as well as holding on to his own Appropriations Committee post. South Dakotans are keenly aware of what it means to have clout in Washington. The state receives more money than it remits in taxes, and with an aging population and large numbers of impoverished Native Americans and drought-stricken farmers, it needs those funds. Thune's campaign took a body blow when Bush, who has made three trips to South Dakota as President, neglected...
...view, the top three schools are still Harvard, Stanford, Wharton,” he said. “And that is not likely to change year to year, as these rankings seem to do. Those places are, and remain, the hardest to get into and have the most clout with peers...
...Philadelphia Inquirer from his father, he founded two hit magazines, Seventeen in 1944 and TV Guide in 1953. One of the world's wealthiest men (estimated net worth: $4 billion), Annenberg served as ambassador to the Court of St. James's under Nixon and sometimes used his journalistic clout to settle political and personal scores. He once barred his TV stations from airing a documentary critical of Nixon. Among his gifts: a $1 billion collection of Impressionist paintings to New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, endowments for communications schools at two universities and $1 million to Israel after...
...laughed off suggestions that he had manufactured the Iraq debate to divert attention from the sagging economy. "It's ridiculous!" he told TIME. "That's not me, and you know it." But that's the thing about Rove; few people know exactly where or whether the perception of his clout diverges from reality. There is no doubt that Rove ranks among the most influential staff members ever to advise a President. He is so peripatetic, his political and policy interests so catholic, that it's tempting for Democrats and Republicans alike to assume there are no limits to Rove...
...maybe not: by Tuesday morning, the ranks of possible candidates had shrunk dramatically. U.S. Rep. Robert Menendez, the presumed front-runner, told party elders he wasn't interested, saying he prefers to stay in the House where his clout is more assured. Former Senator (and one-time presidential candidate) Bill Bradley wasn't answering his phone. That left former Senator Frank Lautenberg, the 78-year-old retiree whose squeaky-clean record, personal fortune and affable style made him as appealing to Democratic leaders as Torricelli was repellent. He and Torricelli, naturally, hate each other. It was just perfect...