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...gimmicks fail. The set collapses. One actor forgets all his lines in terror. And Tiny Tim, played all through rehearsals by a plump pubescent brat who has held the role for years and now nearly outweighs Bob Cratchit, decamps a day before opening, leaving the middle-aged "inspector" to inherit the part...
Clinton's foreign-policy advisers say they know they will inherit unsolved issues and hot spots. But, one says firmly, "we should not and cannot conduct foreign policy between now and Jan. 20. The world needs to have no ambiguity about who's President until then." Clinton and his team are regularly informed, but not consulted, by the White House on major decisions: a secure phone allows National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft to keep in contact with Clinton aides Sandy Berger and Nancy Soderberg. There are no complaints on either side about the one-way dialogue. "There's no reason...
Habit also explains this fixation on the newly elected President. For nearly half a century, the character and the resolve of the U.S. President mattered to Europeans in the most visceral sense -- survival. The nuclear football that Clinton will inherit on Jan. 20 now seems almost a cold war anachronism, but the tendency to look anxiously toward Washington remains an inborn trait. The human mind abhors a power vacuum; even in the dying years of the Roman Empire, free men could probably rattle off the names and pedigrees of Emperors like Petronius Maximus, Majorian and Severus...
WHAT KIND OF PLANET WILL OUR CHILDREN INHERIT? WILL they have room to roam, air to breathe and food to eat? Will they ever see an eagle flying free or enjoy the solitude of a pristine mountain lake...
Back at the Highland Park, Mich., headquarters of America's third largest automaker, platoons of loyal lieutenants toiled in his broad shadow, the best of them hoping to inherit the Chrysler crown one day. Yet, as the years passed, Iacocca led an elaborate executive-suite game of musical chairs. Somehow, every time the music stopped, Lee was still in the chair -- and eventually no fewer than five leading contenders for his job were left standing idly on the sidelines...