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...shot. He makes few speeches, shuns TV, grants almost no interviews and never, ever discusses his friendship with Clinton--with anyone. That discretion magnifies his value because Jordan appears at Clinton's side at the direst of times. He was with Governor Clinton in 1980 after the young pol's bitter electoral defeat. He was with President Clinton on the night of Vincent Foster's suicide, the day of Commerce Secretary Ron Brown's fatal plane crash, and the night consultant Dick Morris was thrown overboard at the 1996 Democratic National Convention because of a sex scandal. He knows...
...film, Henry Fonda plays a pol dogged by a handful of Clintonian traits: Intellect. Indecisiveness. And bushels of babes. But Tracy's ex-President Hockstader knew enough to ask him: "You didn't write them any letters...
...Republican Party, the Christian right has been a blessing and a curse. It mobilizes millions of voters but alienates a lot of others. In Christian Coalition leader Ralph Reed, the G.O.P. had a baby-faced, backroom-working pol who wasn't averse to cutting deals with the party's more secular factions. The new leader of the party's Christian troops is Gary Bauer, the longtime president of the pro-life Family Research Council, and all he has in common with Reed is a baby face. "I'm more comfortable pushing from the outside," he says. Translation...
...states with the cigarette companies hit the bastards hard enough? What was happening in the never ending investigation of the crash of TWA Flight 800? Where is the justice for the killer(s) of JonBenet Ramsey, whose case seems to stew forever? Where is the justice for Pol Pot, the most odious mass murderer since Hitler and Stalin, who was brought into public view on videotape in a Khmer Rouge show trial. There he sat, still as death, watery eyes, age spots, every inch an ordinary old man, except in his vile soul. Where was the international tribunal to bring...
...practiced psychiatry), knows how dangerous, delicate and often destructive such an exercise can be--even in the privacy, confidentiality and highly ritualized setting of the doctor-patient relationship. But large groups? Of strangers? On live national TV? Led by a well-meaning but astute and cunning pol...