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...Angeles he again deflected it with his usual response: "The big question you have to decide is whether you ought to be President." But the role of Hamlet does not suit him | well. Within the next week or so Cuomo is expected to declare his intentions, and political pros expect him to take the first tentative steps toward running...
...when Penn State lost the title to Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl, 25-10, it was starting Quarterback John Shaffer's most horrendous game and first defeat since seventh grade. A memory of the aftermath was how bravely he stood up to it. Though this performance probably reinforced the pros' small opinion of Shaffer, there was one touchdown drive in the middle of the game that suggested why he is 66-1 since junior high. "When it's really hanging out there," Paterno said, "Shaffer can do it." The quarterback said, "I feel total ecstasy...
...Administration's credibility and competence. The underlying cause is the same one that has led to other foreign policy failures: the President's predilection for seat-of-the-pants diplomacy. To prevent any further unraveling of his foreign policy, the President needs to rein in the NSC staff, put pros front and center again, and signal that amateur hour in the White House Situation Room is over...
...college he went out for the football team and was smaller than most of the other people on the playing field. But the coach called him over and said, `Jack, out of all the players here, you're the one that's going to make it to the pros...
Once Wyman's proposal was broached, however, board members gave it a thorough airing. The dissection of the pros and cons went on for several hours. Board members heard legal opinions that they had no obligation to put CBS up for sale. But as one of those present put it later, the directors were also warned ; that "once you begin entertaining outside offers, you have to listen to all offers." A participant recalls that Tisch declared once again that his stock ownership "wasn't a takeover by Loews. He emphasized that he had a big stake in the company...