Word: firmament
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...President Hafez Assad will be succeeded by his son Bashar or his brother Rifaat. While McCain swipes at Bush's reliance on foreign-policy gurus--"When there is a crisis," he says, "I won't have to consult advisers"--he talks shop with many members of the foreign-policy firmament, including Jeane Kirkpatrick, Henry Kissinger, Brent Scowcroft and Brzezinski. In those conversations, McCain's approach diverges from his blustery image. "He is sober, analytical and careful," Kissinger says. "I have never seen an emotional reaction from him on questions of foreign affairs...
Wall Street may also be starting to wonder. After a long run as one of the brightest stars in the Dow firmament, the company's stock has slipped 10% in the past month. The good news is that Disney remains the world's most beloved entertainment brand name--a kind of profitability triple threat that uses movies, theme parks and merchandise to turn every hit into a volcano of revenues. But some analysts are worried that its fabled pre-eminence in the animation arena has eroded since its Lion King days and that its theme parks face newly ferocious rivals...
Knowles acknowledged this in his annual budget letter to the Faculty. "We could all earn more elsewhere as the lone star in a less luminous firmament," he writes...
Working for Clinton has helped seal Currie's place in the Democratic firmament--she moves easily through the most sophisticated worlds, and is friendly with Vernon Jordan and donor Walter Kaye (who recommended Lewinsky for the internship). But, as she once told the Chicago Tribune, "I didn't think the hours would be so long." She works 12 hours a day six days a week--and sometimes on Sundays, as she did Jan. 18, when Clinton reportedly called her in and walked her through his version of the Lewinsky affair. As the fallout from that day continues, unwanted opportunities...
...amazing what an image makeover--plus a very unpopular opponent--can do for a politician's fortunes. At age 63, Cardenas was back in the firmament last week as he and his Party of the Democratic Revolution (P.R.D.) wrested the Mexico City mayor's office from the P.R.I. by a vote of 47% to 26%, with the right-wing National Action Party polling 16%. Now Cardenas is once more being held up as the man who, in the presidential vote of 2000, can end the P.R.I.'s reign as the world's longest-ruling political party...