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...knack for pleasing the crowds. For months the former Pakistani Prime Minister, who has lived in self-imposed exile in London and Dubai since 1999, has hinted at an eventual return to her beloved homeland. She would lead her country to democracy, she promised, but was always coy about when, exactly, she would start. On Friday, in a series of carefully orchestrated simultaneous press conferences held in eight Pakistani cities, Bhutto's Pakistan People?s Party announced the long-awaited date: October 18. Any subsequent information they may have wanted to express was drowned out by the sound of ecstatic...
...June 18, Democrat Henry Waxman pulled back the veil on what she's been saying by releasing a 90-page deposition his staff conducted with her on May 10. The documents show Ralston and her lawyer playing a coy game, offering up unsolicited information on Rove's use of prewar Iraq intelligence, his conversations with Scooter Libby in the Valerie Plame case and political briefings by the White House to agencies--but saying she can only give the committee a full look at everything if it will give her immunity from prosecution, should she become a target of an investigation...
...York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg had his media moment Wednesday, and the newly minted independent said all the coy and clever things that potential Presidential candidates are supposed to say to keep their options open and their profiles high...
Fred Thompson is done being coy. Only a few minutes after his 10 rivals for the Republican presidential nomination finished debating in New Hampshire on June 5, Thompson appeared on Fox News and unveiled his campaign website. Within 18 hours, more than 25,000 people had paid the virtual candidate a visit, contributing some $220,000. Not bad, but not exactly explosive either...
...light of all this, I suggest an alternative. Next year, the College Events Board should cease its coy posturing and change the name of the game to “CEB Self-Promotion.” The format would be very similar to Risk’s, except that the battles would be rhetorical, the rules prescribed by Stephen R. Covey’s Seven Habits of Highly Effective People and the communistic House element eroded to shameless personal image management. And, of course, MorganStanley will be watching...