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...surprisingly, White House officials have been poring over drafts for weeks. This is the first year that former Wall Street Journal editorial writer Bill McGurn has run the speech operation. But former speechwriting pointman Mike Gerson, now a counselor to the President and one of the architects of Bush?s ?compassionate conservatism,? has been brought in to help give the address added polish...
Vice President and General Counsel and Official Pointman and Union Candy Store Manager Daniel Steiner '54 takes on responsibility for approving tenure, selecting deans, greeting foreign diplomats and ingratiating himself with freshmen at Dean Moses' weekly teas. He denies that the additional responsibilities are an attempt to relieve President Bok's workload, explaining that he merely had to fill extra free time now that the anti-union drive is over...
...Secretary of State will need a whole lot more, of course. But his little box seems to symbolize a gentle, almost self-effacing approach that has helped Shultz settle into his role as the pointman of American foreign policy. In a methodical and low-keyed way, he has spent his first six weeks in office putting mortar between the crumbling bricks of U.S. policy. Outside thinkers have been summoned to help assess basic American goals around the globe. Seminars with the President and his aides have been instituted so that decision making will be less haphazard. And for the moment...
...abrasive Sanjay frequently outraged New Delhi powerbrokers with his highhanded ways, he carried out a serious task for his mother: he kept the volatile Congress Party in line. Since his death, dissent has begun to bubble in party ranks. Rajiv, at least outwardly, seems less adapted to playing pointman for his mother, but he starts his new career with two big advantages: by the corrupt standards of Indian political life, he is Mr. Clean, and Congress Party members will not dare challenge his authority if they want to remain on the good side of Indira Gandhi...
Another returnee from a year's hiatus is senior pointman Glenn Fine. A deft ballhandler and penetrating guard, Find is expected to quarterback the Crimson fastbreak...