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...palpable sense of tension, no 'this is it' pep talk. It was all very Bill." Hauser walked through the "free media" strategy (which others say emphasizes local-television interviews in key districts). Bradley waved a hand and turned the conversation to the larger message question: How would the campaign knit together its basic themes for the final push? "He tells us where he wants to go and expects us to know how to get there," says an adviser. "He doesn't want to get down in the weeds...
Yeltsin's resignation was planned with one end in mind--Putin's elevation and the continued protection of the outgoing President, his family and their close associates. That tight-knit clique--ironically labeled "the Family" by Russians--had a close call in early 1999, when then Prime Minister Yevgeni Primakov unleashed a criminal investigation. It was an alarming portent of things to come and brought home to the Family the need to find a successor who would look after their interests. What made their concern even greater was the fact that Primakov, who was fired in May, had rapidly become...
...social causes, politically sophisticated. "They're the most fun, most interesting people," says Skylar Ulrich, the former girlfriend who was the model for the role Minnie Driver played in Good Will Hunting, and who's now a doctor, married to Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich. "They're really tight knit, and yet they're very individual...
Yugoslavia found itself in a precarious, fragile situation entering the '90s. There were in large numbers throughout the country moderate citizens and politicians, Croat, Serb, and of other ethnicities, who hoped to see the country transform itself peacefully into a loosely knit confederation in which all citizens would play a part in governance...
...battle between the top two G.O.P. candidates will take place in trenches already carved within the South Carolina G.O.P. Bush has knit his family ties into an organization backed by establishment Republican politicians and old hands like former Governor Carroll Campbell. McCain is backed by members of the more obstinate wing of the South Carolina clan, which includes Congressman Lindsey Graham, a folk hero made famous by his quirky orations as a House manager during the President's impeachment trial, and Mark Sanford, an unflappable budget hawk. "The McCain campaign is a revolt," says Richard Quinn, McCain...