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...promises to free the rest. There is enormous pressure on the military to relinquish its grip so that new elections can be held before the end of the year. And, of course, miracles do happen. Nigerians need look no further than the transformation of Moshood Abiola from a fixer into their country's new symbol of democracy for indisputable proof of that...
Gates visited one Senate office after another Monday trying to lather on a little of his personal charm. But even his escort, Vin Weber, a former Congressman who's now a full-time Washington fixer, couldn't smooth Gates' prickly edges. "It was like fingernails on a blackboard," said a participant in one of the meetings. "You'd think with all that money he's paying to his advisers they'd tell him how to behave in front of a U.S. Senator...
...white man's Burton"--is the soul up for grabs in Primary Colors. He joins the Stanton campaign because he thinks, "This guy could be the real thing." Delicately played by British stage star Adrian Lester (As You Like It, Company), Henry is a can-do Candide, a fixer who keeps hoping Stanton is the best of all possible candidates. Ideals are always in danger of being reduced to fairy tales...
...rainmaker and fixer, Jordan soon equaled Strauss himself. But unlike Strauss, he didn't advertise it. "Jordan has been a stealth presence in Washington," says Charles Lewis, executive director of the Center for Public Integrity. "He's a super-lawyer who is rarely seen or heard, but who hobnobs with the high and mighty and receives large sums for doing so. Little is known of how much he traffics on his relationship with Bill Clinton. He is close to the most powerful people and does not need or want publicity...
...Christmas Eve with the Jordans and regularly visited them on the Vineyard in the summer. Says Jordan's friend Richard Moe, president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation: "Public life can be a pretty high-risk proposition." But as Jordan is finding out, the private life of a fixer carries risks too. He could go before Starr's grand jury in Little Rock as early as this week...