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When Bill Clinton and Bill Gates played golf on Martha's Vineyard a few years ago, they didn't click. The President gave Gates a heavy dose of the Clinton Treatment, oozing charm and seeking emotional common ground in the fact that both had recently lost their mothers. Clinton must have been disappointed by the cool response of Gates, who saw the subject as unduly personal. Gates, for his part, was put off that Clinton didn't engage him on his favorite topic, technology. When the golfing ended, the two men went their separate ways. Gates didn't take sides...
MONDAY, JAN. 4: Reinsdorf flies to New York City for the final owners' meeting before the Jan. 6 deadline set for canceling the NBA season. From the plane he tries to call Jordan who, he discovers, is in the Bahamas playing golf. He phones Jordan's agent, David Falk, who can't reach his client. Reinsdorf then calls Jackson at his new house in upstate New York to ask whether he won't change his mind about coaching. Jackson pleasantly chuckles a no, probably holds back on offering a koan about one-year contracts...
This success foreshadowed at least seven other completed deals, with a bunch more in the works. These deals include an interest in a California golf course, some residential and industrial properties in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, and recent deals in Illinois and New Mexico...
...that she is already on her way to something else. It is hard to believe there is anything accidental about the fact that her schedule of late has kept her away from the White House and Washington, where her husband was devoting an unseemly amount of his time to golf. Her visit to New York City earlier this month, something the White House would usually book as a day trip, stretched over three long days and two late nights, all packed with events nourishing her ego and her image and her agenda. Hillary gamely crooned a funny, off-key duet...
...other reasons, of course. Buffett and Lynch are both pushing products of their own companies. Those I'm-the-wonderful-CEO ads are also justified as being good for the company--at least in the CEO's own swollen head. There has been published speculation that Gates made the golf-club ad in order to seem warmer and cuddlier. This probably isn't true (as his employee, I already find him entirely lovable). But even the notion of making a commercial endorsement as a way of humanizing your image would have seemed, until recently, bizarre...