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...Governor in 1994, Bush has avoided the mistakes that doomed his father: he has learned and relearned domestic policy, moved to the center and played down issues dear to the Christian right. It's no coincidence that Bush's popular brand of moderate conservatism resembles that of another former Southern Governor. Rather than trying to beat a New Democrat, Republicans like Bush have discovered, the winning strategy is simply to become...
Flynt's offer dovetails with two compatible forces: the media once reluctant to publicize Washington philanderers but now ravenous to do so; and women once reluctant to rat on their married lovers but now less willing to suffer in silence. The town is full of former Cherry Blossom Princesses brought to the Capitol by newly elected Congressmen to serve as receptionists and links to the folks back home. A woman in this category learns not only how bills become law but also what a cad a politician (with a family back in the district...
...Angeles last Friday to select the best stories and recruit reporters to pursue them. Maxa says he was lured out of semiscandal retirement by the prospect that some of those discarded on the ash heap of history might emerge to name names. Maxa's claim to fame is exposing former Congressman Wayne Hays and his "assistant" Elizabeth Ray ("I can't type...I can't even answer the phone"), and Paula Parkinson, who didn't play golf but teed up on an outing to Florida with top Republicans. Maxa says Flynt has created the ideal situation for loosening tongues: "money...
...Former University of Tennessee golden boy Manning has been slightly less inept and much less flammable than the backward-hat-wearing Leaf. But his glue-horse Colts had empty oat bags after four games, and Manning's 11 interceptions were the most for a Colts team, over that span, since the Cuban missile crisis...
...these tapes were said to contain had the software giant's people salivating: top executives at Netscape, their chief rival in the browser wars, were caught candidly admitting to strategic--perhaps fatal--business blunders. It would have been "the best evidence," laments Charles ("Rick") Rule, Microsoft legal consultant and former Assistant Attorney General. The loss of this juicy morsel was another rude awakening for Bill Gates: federal courts, it seems, are a lot less pliable than software start...