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...Republican takeover of the Senate was close to two years in the making, the strategy hammered out by Rove and various high-ranking G.O.P. activists in secret meetings held everywhere from Capitol Hill brasseries to West Virginia golf courses. By the eve of the election, G.O.P. polls projected a big turnout by Republican voters energized by Bush's full-court press: he visited 15 states in the past five days. Democratic strategists, meanwhile, underestimated his pull. "Bush's coattails were far more effective than anybody on our side thought," says a top Democratic operative. "We thought his popularity numbers were...
...sister Nina is taking a week off from her job as a social worker in Auburn, Maine, to spell Chuck for a few days, something she does four times a year. The other siblings take turns parent sitting so that Chuck and Chris can get in their weekly golf game and attend meetings of Children of Aging Parents, their caregivers' support group. Says Chuck: "In support group, we see battles and heartbreak in families where siblings don't help out. I got so lucky with my brother and sisters, because I truly couldn't do this without them...
...American Academy of Family Physicians Foundation ended up bagging its annual golf tournament this year. The event, which would have been held this month in San Diego, used to draw big bucks from drug companies eager to talk shop with doctor-duffers. One year Pfizer served breakfast, Otsuka America brought lunch, Novartis supplied the golf carts, TAP Pharmaceutical stocked the beverage cart and nine other drugmakers each sponsored a hole or two. But these days no one is willing to give or take so much as a logo-stamped golf ball...
That's because pharmaceutical companies are trying to shake their reputation for inveigling their way onto doctors' prescription pads and into patients' wallets. An industry trade group recommended in April that its members stop promoting drugs at golf outings, ski trips, luaus and anything else that goes beyond bringing cold cuts to a sales pitch. And the drugmakers were just a step ahead of regulators. On Oct. 3, the Federal Government published draft guidelines on how drug reps should interact with physicians and hinted at tougher enforcement of anti-kickback laws...
...wheels of diplomacy are greased by many a lubricant: embassy parties, cocktails, rounds of golf. But when commercial treaty negotiations between Townsend Harris, the United States' first consul in Japan, and the Tokugawa shogunate bogged down in 1857, a rather more personal angle did the trick: a maid- servant named Okichi for the lonely American. Barbarian comforted, deal clinched...