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...thereby increasing his pension income $5,000 a year. Sessions told Justice officials he would resign once his successor is confirmed by the Senate, a move that would deny his nemesis Clarke a shot at being interim director. In an interview with TIME last Friday, Reno was poker-faced on Sessions even as other members of the Administration were growing weary of trying to persuade him to leave. "I am not negotiating," Reno said. But does she expect a resolution soon? "Yes," she added...
...Moreno graduates today, she will be abandoning her post as a primary Law School fun-poker. The writer herself will work next year in the Los Angeles office of a New York-based law firm...
...smarts and charm; he is never more alive than in front of the cameras as the Oprah of health care and unemployment. Warren Christopher, a natural introvert old enough to be Clinton's father, glides into a room as silently as a monk. His gravelly monotone and wrinkled poker face give nothing away, his mobile eyes are friendly but curiously unreadable. His Establishment-lawyer virtues come not from the era of MTV but from the days of Father Knows Best: diligence, discipline, modesty, probity. "Very finely made," says a foreign minister of Christopher, "like an English suit." But Clinton...
...options menu, "it's not surprising that the Bosnian Serbs concluded we were bluffing and so voted against the Athens agreement," says this official. "We either should have had our ducks in a row before Chris left, or he should have stayed home and hid behind his poker face. As it is, we looked like beggars, when we know from experience that the allies will fall in line if we toughly set out what we're going to do. This business of the President saying we can't lead if the allies won't follow ignores the lessons...
...kept a quality of eager boyishness that made an odd, attractive contrast to his professional polish, somewhat in the way that, for years, his youthful face contradicted his prematurely gray hair. He was famous for his democratically inclusive range of friends, many of whom showed up at his poker games (all pigeons welcome, from copyboys to senior editors). Ron's love of gambling had a certain raffishness about it. Keep the casino open. Give everybody some chips...