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...tantalizing question through the first tense days was how much the 43rd President was huddling with the 41st. Bush gave no hint, even to some of his closest aides, that he was talking to his father, but everyone in the West Wing assumed he was. Dad's diplomatic alter ego, Brent Scowcroft, was in regular communication with Rice, his former protEgE. Scowcroft worked quietly behind the scenes to tone down the initial response. Bush Sr., who spent part of last week in Europe but could have been in secure contact with the White House through embassy phone hookups, has always...
...Films, but he is a regular visitor to their parties. The reason for this intermingling is simple. One never knows when the informal bond that arises will pay off. Spacey may have a "vanity project" (the industry term for a quirky idea driven by a star's passion or ego) turned down by other studios. Attending parties and schmoozing with Miramax honcho Harvey Weinstein lays in place a rapport that might one day be turned to advantage. For Miramax the transaction is equally simple. Spacey and others like him attract the hip-erati. Put another way, Spacey is a chic...
Still, for those of you who got creamed in the stock market last week, here's a little more comfort: you've got company. Lots of it. Such meager solace won't put Junior through college or send Cisco back to $82, but it sure helps the ego knowing that tens of thousands of people clung to their tech stocks as desperately as you did for the whole bloody decline. How could they not? For years tech stocks were magical. Unimagined wealth was yours simply for logging on to the New Economy mind-set, clicking three times and whispering, "There...
...Greenspan stated with some plainness that he will not be providing any. There is high-minded talk of the "moral hazard" - certainly the Fed cannot come to the rescue every time the investing mob makes a bad group bet - and lower talk about A Man and His Ego. Perhaps he is prodding George W. Bush to put his tax cut where his mouth is when it comes to stimulating the "sputtering" economy the President talks so much about...
Athlete is right. The right candidate will have to be used to slogging long distances with little reward; he or she may need to be an Olympic-level ego stroker. Because it grew so big so fast with so many of the same people in charge, Yahoo has become notorious for its insular us-and-them culture. Only one executive--Sue Decker, the CFO--has arrived from the outside and walked into a corner office...