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While the television cameras were focused on the rallies - and the commentators became lost in reveries about People Power revisited - behind-the-scenes negotiations had been going on nonstop between military factions loyal to Estrada and those who advocated a quick coup to depose the President. Chief of Staff Reyes and Defense Secretary Mercado had made their fateful call to Estrada after a luncheon attended by all the top commanders. The officers agreed that renouncing Estrada was the best course, in part because some commanders were urging more drastic resolution. If the military did not come to a consensus, there...
...Michael Jackson. Despite their less-than- amicable divorce a few years ago - Marc left her for a younger blond - Denise recently wrote a supporting letter at the request of Marc's New York attorney, Robert Fink. The daughter of Holocaust survivors, Denise has been one of the Clintons' most loyal supporters, giving $70,000 in soft money to Hillary's Senate race. It was Denise who held a morale-boosting, $4 million Democratic fund-raiser starring Bill Clinton at her Fifth Avenue apartment in September 1998, one of his first appearances after the release of the Starr report...
...young men riding shotgun. Power has shifted from the warlords to business leaders, who support and bankroll the new government, and to the Islamic courts. Most Somalis despise the warlords, or faction leaders, as they like to be called, and the militias the warlords feed and arm are increasingly loyal to whoever can pay them, not necessarily their fellow clansmen. Still, the warlords remain strong enough to be spoilers. In a rare display of unity but characteristic defiance of authority, a group of them recently announced they would stop the government from reopening Mogadishu's main seaport. "We will tell...
...being versatile. Take full advantage of training courses--especially ones that will teach you to apply new productivity-enhancing technologies. No matter what you hear, says Jeff Joerres, CEO of the staffing firm Manpower, "most people prefer to stay where they are, and, by the same token, employers want loyal workers...
...that those who rise highest in campaigns or political organizations tend to be - excuse the cliché - the fiercest loyalists. In politics, it is generally perceived to be disloyal if you disagree with the senator or governor. In terms of your continued employment, it is usually better to be loyal and wrong than correct and "disloyal." For most politicians, the right reply to any suggestion is "Brilliant...