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...person who could muster the troops, just as she had in Arkansas in 1980, in New Hampshire in 1992 and in the Executive Residence in 1994, when the Democratic Party died. By Thursday, Hillary was putting together a new, combative team. She wondered if her old, ousted alter ego Harold Ickes could come back, and she added Mickey Kantor to the legal team, more for his political skills than his legal ones. Adviser Sid Blumenthal created a gigantic diagram inside his office outlining with circles and arrows the byzantine Republican conspiracy surrounding the tapes. A fierce argument raged over whether...
...wanted to work with a good director, but we didn't want to work for a good director." After running through most of Broadway's top names, rejecting some and being turned down by others, Simon settled on Susana Tubert, an Argentine-born director who had apprenticed with Harold Prince. She was ousted after three months. Then Simon brought in Eric Simonson, a young Chicago director who had staged The Song of Jacob Zulu on Broadway. Where Tubert had favored a magic-realist approach, Simonson pushed for a more documentary style, which Simon hated. Simonson was out after two months...
...referring to one of his predecessors as Sir Tony Eden? I hope not. Sir Anthony Eden was my idea of a proper British Prime Minister. His policies weren't much to speak of, but at least he looked and sounded the part. The same was true of Harold Macmillan, another stiff old bird who mumbled through his mustache and never heard of anyone getting in touch with his inner self. Any aide who referred to that Prime Minister as Hal would presumably have found himself transferred to a social-services suboffice in Leeds...
Back at the White House, the president has reached out to Harold Ickes and Mickey Kantor, two former staffers known for their legal and political acuity. And First Lady Hilary Rodham Clinton personally took over what may be her husband's last, and most dangerous campaign. She's scheduled to appear Tuesday on the Today Show, a big TV day since hours later her husband will deliver what will undoubtedly be the most-watched State of the Union Address is U.S. history. In Congress, meanwhile, the Democrats maintain their uneasy silence as the Republicans, sitting in tall cotton, relaxed, stretched...
BRITAIN Tony Blair Harold Macmillan (5) 34 years...