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...failed 1980 presidential campaign, and no Democrat who was there will ever forget how Kennedy brought down the house at the Democratic Convention that year with the Shrum-crafted line that "the dream shall never die." It's that kind of magic candidates are looking for when they hire Shrum, but he is also known for bringing a populist edge and internal foment, and the extent of his influence over Kerry today is the subject of much intrigue in Washington political circles. Shrum's political-consulting partner Tad Devine has become the face of the campaign on the cable shout...
...daily sound-bite war with the Bush campaign. Clinton's U.N. representative Richard Holbrooke is so influential when it comes to Kerry's foreign policy views that he is considered the odds-on favorite to become Secretary of State if Kerry is elected. Kerry even picked up a hire from the Bush White House. When Rand Beers quit as Bush's senior assistant for counterterrorism, contending that Bush had gone to war in Iraq too soon and taken his eye off the global war on terrorism, Beers quickly found a home in the Kerry campaign as a senior foreign policy...
...whether Aznar broke the law by retaining the reports. "This is a sign of his authoritarian and self-centered way," says Begoña Lasagabaster, a Basque congresswoman. The bad publicity just kept coming. Cadena Ser, a well-regarded Spanish radio network, reported that in January the Spanish government hired Washington law firm Piper Rudnick to, among other things, help Aznar collect the Congressional Gold Medal. Officials from Aznar's Popular Party say it's common practice for governments to hire Washington lobbyists, but critics are charging misappropriation of public funds. The U.S. Congress has yet to approve the medal...
...beat them, hire them. Under pressure from the Sarbanes-Oxley Act to improve corporate oversight, Wall Street firms are beefing up their legal departments with one former government regulator after another. "Many of our clients are looking for people with strong regulatory sensibilities," says Susan Kurz Snyder of Greene-Levin-Snyder Legal Search Group, an executive-recruitment firm. In the past year, Eric Dinallo from New York attorney general Eliot Spitzer's office and the SEC's Patrick Patalino have switched over to Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse First Boston, respectively. The latest defector: Beth L. Golden, Spitzer's former...
...also take other measures. Sometimes it's easiest and necessary to hire an independent local accountant to help oversee bill payment and money allocation. That advice comes from Diedre Wachbrit, a member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys. Many accountants now have elder-care practices for situations just like this. Having a professional track your mother-in-law's expenses and pay her bills can help your husband avoid some ugly wrangling with his sister...