Word: instinctiveness
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Berger's great asset to Clinton has been -- and will be -- what Greg Craig, a Washington lawyer who served with Berger on the board of a human-rights group, calls "an unerring instinct for the important" -- the ability to figure out which issues are peripheral before that becomes obvious to others, and to avoid spending any more time in a meeting than needed to accomplish his purpose. Colleagues praise him for other lawyerly virtues as well: sound judgment, discretion, the ability to absorb technical minutiae fast without losing sight of the big picture, a willingness, says a friend, "to work...
...Bush's foreign policy team credit "for working together about as well as it's been done," a virtue whose importance is reinforced by the memory of how Carter's presidency was undermined by the unceasing attacks on Vance by Carter's National Security Adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski. Berger's instinct, like Clinton's, is to build a consensus rather than obliterate opponents, "to get the job done with the least amount of damage," as a friend puts it. Lake calls this trait "a taste for communal enterprise." During the campaign, that attention to bridge building brought many lapsed Democratic foreign...
...valuable in cases like this. Forget the furrowed brow and the repeated candlelight reading of the lyric sheet with a glass of cheap red beside the CD jewel box. Whenever a performer of Leonard Cohen's high caliber and even higher seriousness comes out with a new album, the instinct is to treat it as if it were an invitation to a semiotics seminar or a cryptogram from a reclusive shaman poet. But just this once, never mind all that. The Future is a record to get onto, like an express from the far side of paradise, even before...
...Britons? If you picked B, you too can work for the Motion Picture Association of America. The MPAA forced French director Louis Malle (Atlantic City) to re-edit a love scene in Damage, which opened last week, before receiving the same "R" given the gore and genitalia of Basic Instinct. Malle had no choice -- many theaters won't show NC-17 movies. "In no way was the scene pornographic," he insisted. "In Europe we don't have this problem with nudity." Explaining the double standard, MPAA head Jack Valenti said, "Violence comes in many different forms. With sex there...
...many Russians fear. Warnings of an imminent overthrow of the Yeltsin government come almost daily in the capital, from all sides of the political spectrum. Whether the messenger is a top government official, a parliamentary leader, a member of an opposition party or an ordinary Russian with a gut instinct, the message is always the same: dark forces are at work devising a scheme to take power and install a dictatorship...