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...Morris had done what Rowlands claimed. (Later McCurry told reporters that the Bowles-Morris talks were "private.") Also, Clinton knew that his chief of staff, Leon Panetta, and Panetta's deputy, Ickes, were too hostile to Morris to deal with him in these circumstances. Panetta had once threatened to quit because Morris was elbowing in on White House access. Ickes had sparred with Morris since the two were rivals in New York City politics three decades...
...years later she beat Martina Navratilova to recapture the title. An inexhaustible baseline player, Austin helped usher in the era of brat tennis. She was ahead of her time in other ways too. At 29, she was the youngest player inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame, having quit eight years earlier, plagued by a sciatic-nerve problem. Two comebacks later, she retired for good. Now married to mortgage broker Scott Holt, she had their first child, Dylan, in April. Today she does TV commentary and plays in the Virginia Slims Legends Tour. Austin also runs a pro-celebrity...
...President on the phone and after hours. "Mystery," he likes to say, "is an integral part of power." For a while he was known only as Charlie--so named by Clinton--the unseen force that hijacked speeches and made policies change course. Chief of staff Leon Panetta threatened to quit unless Clinton brought Morris into the structure. Deputy chief of staff Ickes, his adversary since the 1960s, bollixed Morris wherever he could, refusing his hotel minibar bills and cutting the commission that Morris and his team earned on Clinton's enormous TV-ad budget. Last summer, when Morris urged Clinton...
...Gerald Posner stated in his story, I played a role in Perot's decision to quit the 1992 race, but I am now a born-again Christian and am deeply sorry for this incident [in which Perot said that due to a Republican Party plot to embarrass his family he was dropping out of the campaign]. Yes, there was in fact a very involved conspiracy to remove President George Bush from the White House, and yes, I was one of the many people involved in that episode. I admit my wrongdoing and accept full responsibility for my own actions...
...goes for as many seasons as one is allowed; then the ability to play wanes. But things often get best just before the end. They say that 41-year-old Ozzie Smith, the great Cardinals shortstop, should have quit last year before having to suffer the sight of a better, younger fielder taking his place. Watching the All-Star game last month, one might have agreed when Ozzie let a high chopper play him that he would have charged without blinking a few years ago. But then he made a classic double-play pivot in the sixth and beamed like...