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...news that House Majority Leader??Tom DeLay had been dreading for months was brought by an aide, who interrupted DeLay's weekly lunch with Dennis Hastert in the House Speaker's office. DeLay absorbed it, and then the man widely called "the Hammer" on Capitol Hill (though rarely to his face) did what he does best: he hit back. "All right," DeLay replied. "Let's go. Let's go fight." Less than three hours later, before a roomful of reporters, DeLay addressed a Texas grand jury's charge that he and two political associates conspired to funnel...
Andropov's compatriots barely had time to form much of an impression of their leader???not, at least, in his latest role. They knew him well enough as chief of the dreaded KGB for 15 years and as a man accustomed to having his own way. Whatever misgivings they might have had about him, after watching Brezhnev's painful, protracted decline, many had hoped that Andropov, at 69, would project an image of strength and vigor. But soon after taking office, he too displayed the telltale signs of serious illness and completely disappeared from public view for his final...
Andropov's performance to date has demonstrated that the West may be dealing with a new type of Soviet leader???a poker player who handles his cards with subtlety and prestidigitation. He has been remarkably quick and shrewd in taking advantage of openings that circumstance, allied anxieties and American missteps have given him. Brezhnev was in office for a number of years before he had the confidence and the backing within the collective leadership to assume a forceful, prominent role in foreign policy. In the European nuclear debate, Brezhnev attempted a number of personal, high-visibility ploys to head...
...leading ecclesiastical historian at Catholic University: "The greatest contribution that the Pope's visit can make to our nation is focusing upon and emphasizing the need for a revival of morality. John Paul is a man of singular sophistication; he is no pious goose. But he is a moral leader???or he isn't anything...
...will matter, of course, but the struggle will most likely be decided on other grounds. It will be colored by religion and haunted by Watergate. More important, the American people, fed up with politics and politicians, are in a mood to choose the man they see as the stronger leader???someone they can trust...