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...campaign, Bush retained his well-known distaste for spending nights away from his White House pillow. "Bush gets pretty grumpy out there, and Karl absorbs the brunt of it," says an aide to the President. Five days before the election, as Air Force One flew from South Dakota to Indiana, Rove was tugging at the President to make an extra stop in Iowa to help candidates there. Bush was having none of it. "You better have a parachute, Karl," Bush quipped, "because when we get over Iowa, we're throwing you off the plane...
...senior White House official. And it showed throughout the campaign: "The President knew what was in nearly every ad. He was getting that from Karl." He had a junkie's appetite for the polling data: "Bush wanted to know the polling numbers," says Brooks Kochvar, campaign manager for new Indiana Congressman Chris Chocola. "It wasn't just the top line either. He wanted to know where the undecideds stood and what was going on in depth in the polls...
...Liddy Dole of North Carolina, wife of the former Senate majority leader and presidential candidate. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, whose father was mayor of New Orleans and a member of Jimmy Carter's Cabinet, is favored in a runoff. In the Senate they'll all join Evan Bayh of Indiana and Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island, both sons of Senators, and Hillary Clinton, who seems intent on starting her own dynasty...
Ideal mate: Indiana Jones...
...child in Berkeley, Calif., Rossoukh’s early role model was Indiana Jones; that his hero was a cinematic archaeologist perhaps affected his choice to study anthropology here at Harvard. A more immediate influence, however, was the two-and-a-half-year period after his graduation from Dartmouth in 1996 that Rossoukh spent observing the Bakhtiyari, a pastoral nomadic tribe in southern Iran...