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...with Clinton riding high, what happens from here on out? Discipline, Discipline, Discipline. The Clintonites have been studying Ronald Reagan's successful 1984 re-election effort. One lesson: Keep command and control in the White House the way chief of staff Jim Baker did it (deputy chief of staff Harold Ickes is overseeing things from the West Wing). Another lesson: Croon along with Ronnie's song of optimism (the effectiveness of that approach is underscored by candidate Steve Forbes' success). Every week for the next few months, Clinton plans to reprise themes from the State of the Union. This...
...DIED. HAROLD BRODKEY, 65, famously self-absorbed New Yorker writer whose first novel took 27 years to deliver; of AIDS; in New York City. His massive, free-form work was known as "the greatest novel never written." Finally published in 1991 as The Runaway Soul, it received decidedly mixed reviews...
...long story. I started off wanting to be pseudonymous, but Harold Evans [the publisher] decided to go all the way. My first reaction was: gimmicky. But I've really grown to love it ... I also wanted the book received on its own merits ... not on the identity of the author, whether I'm someone you've heard of or not ... I do wish I could share the secret with friends...
...read Primary Colors, I built my own code book--a list of the characters matched with their real-life counterparts. Around page 90 I gave up in exhaustion, having deciphered three dozen names (an insider's Who's Who that includes Grunwald, James Carville, Harold Ickes, David Wilhelm, Stan Greenberg, Bob Kerrey, Tom Harkin, Paul Tsongas and Mario Cuomo). Some of the portraits are so deliciously vicious, I can only assume the author is settling personal scores. Take this description of the fictional stand-in for Hillary's much feared close friend Susan Thomases: "She was awful beyond imagining...
...succession, the Queen herself must petition for advice and permission from the Prime Minister. Thus in 1967, when the Queen first allowed a member of the royal family to remarry (the Earl of Harewood, the Queen's first cousin), she did so upon the advice of Prime Minister Harold Wilson. Therefore her recent instruction to Charles, 47, and Diana, 32, to divorce was a veritable act of state. For this is the worst-case scenario: Elizabeth suddenly dies, Charles becomes King--and an estranged but undivorced Diana, Queen. Their rival courts would then so conspire against each other that...