Word: ego
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...strength and my weakness," gingrich says, "is that I see normally impersonal events vividly and personally." Conviction and charisma helped him transform the House and press his agenda, but ego and hubris produced the major miscalculations. If the months leading up to the August break were played on offense, the fall was full of fumbles. For the first time, Gingrich had to close a deal, to bargain with someone whose interests were at odds with his own. He learned the hard way that this stage of the game, the stage at which Bob Dole is the unchallenged master...
...decades, first in the State Department, then on Wall Street, honing his skills as a diplomat and a dealmaker. Still, some found it surprising that he should be picked for this critical assignment. Over the years, he had won a reputation for fierce ambition and abrasive self-promotion. His ego and aggressiveness, it was said, did not suit the delicate job of constructing a Balkan peace settlement. As one colleague put it, Holbrooke is like "a bull who takes his own china shop with...
...MASTER CLASS The role is larger than life: the century's most famous diva, Maria Callas, captured at an age when her voice has left but her ego remains as outsized as ever. The performance is commensurately grand: Zoe Caldwell, by turns imperious and humbled, cruel and sympathetic. Terrence McNally's Broadway play may have its structural shortcomings, but it is cheering to watch so much talent hurled at so much ambition...
...Speaker's lip flapping had serious consequences. He not only impeded efforts to return federal employees to work, but also put his ego in the way of the 104th Congress's achieving its larger aim of balancing the budget in seven years. Gingrich's behavior reminded his colleagues that the visionary architect of the Contract with America has never had to prove himself under the pressure of adversarial bargaining...
...staffer told Richard Albertson, an undecided delegate to next week's perversely important straw poll in Florida, which Dole himself has called "the big political event of the year for us." Albertson retorted, "I don't need to talk to him personally. I don't need to have my ego stroked. I just want to know what he believes...