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...adviser but smooth enough to attract the support of country-club Republicans anxious to check the influence of the religious right, whose delegates favored former Missouri Governor John Ashcroft or party tactician Spencer Abraham. Rather than flock under ideological banners, however, most of the R.N.C. members avoided ideology. The loudest applause of the day came when Rich Bond, the G.O.P.'s retiring chairman, urged that the 1996 platform drop its strict antiabortion plank...
...news echoed loudest on Wall Street, where IBM stock has been transformed from a darling into an ugly duckling in recent years. IBM shares went into a free fall after chief executive John Akers warned that the company may have to cut its rich yearly dividend of $4.84 a share as a result of the restructuring. "The reality of the environment we find ourselves in makes us less sure we'll be able to maintain that dividend," he said. "We must be frank with ourselves and honest with our constituents, including our shareholders." The company's stock plummeted 11 points...
...Honeyboy Edwards and Robert Johnson's stepson, Robert Lockwood Jr., who learned guitar from the Great One himself. Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson, a Chicago guitar kingpin who has shared the stage with the likes of Muddy Waters, Eric Clapton, the Allan Brothers and the Rolling Stones, sweats out the loudest set of the evening. It's already steaming hot, but Luther's loud, raucous performance pushes the temperature even higher. Mercifully, someone opens a window...
...corporate consultant. Built like a jockey (4 ft. 10 in. and wiry) and bursting with humor and energy, Reich could always attract and hold an audience, even when playing honky-tonk piano for friends on weekends. And for the past 24 years, he has won some of his loudest applause from a friend named Bill Clinton, who campaigned for the White House on an economic plan framed around Reich's ideas for creating good American jobs in the new global economy...
...completely naive. Things could go wrong. And all his fragile coalition needs is one or two persistent problems. Make no mistake: The conservatives who are voting for him this year will be his loudest and most immediate critics beginning next year. It won't take much to strip them away...