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When Bill Clinton first came to Washington in 1993, he brought his kindergarten friend Mack McLarty with him as his right hand. That didn't work out very well. Four years later, his new chief of staff, Erskine Bowles, is a man he first met in 1992, and bonded with so close, so fast that even Bowles' admirers have to reach deep into the couch for an explanation. Bowles, says a White House aide, is what a 10-year-old Clinton would have considered a successful real grownup: "He has money, real self-assurance, he knows what...
...climactic meeting was on Saturday, July 20, at campaign headquarters, with Senators Abraham, Bennett and Connie Mack of Florida present and many other counselors, like Rumsfeld, participating by speakerphone. Dole this time "moved from interested spectator to clear participant," says Bennett. He and Burke are convinced that Dole decided then on the 15% across-the-board cut. A big reason: the plan applied the same reduction to both the rich and the poor, so he could defend the move as fair...
...very responsive to questions, right on target and on the ball," said Barbara J. Mack, a first-year student at the Kennedy School who is studying for a master's degree in public administration...
...stock can be difficult. "I won't take a half-million-share stake in a day," he says. "I'll buy 50,000 shares a day for months to build up a position." Danoff is candid about the downside of running a fund so large: "You're racing a Mack truck against a speedster [i.e., a smaller, competing fund]. I go 45 miles per hour, and the speedster goes 70 miles an hour. But he may spin out at some point. I'll do well if I stay out of trouble...
...chapter last year was one of seven recipients of the Cambridge School Volunteers, Inc. Mack J. Davis II Award for Extraordinary Service to the Cambridge Public Schools...