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Senior White House aides say they are not worried that Cheney is weighing down the ticket. He's a great fund raiser and base motivator. "These are serious times, and he's a serious guy," says a presidential adviser. "People aren't going to care about Halliburton...They're going to care about who can protect them." For his part, Cheney is amused by the Democratic attacks. "That's politics," he says to friends, grinning his trademark half grin and shrugging his shoulders to signal there's nothing to worry about. --By Matthew Cooper/Washington
...though, is Clark's dismay over the Bush Administration's misuse of "the precious lives of our men and women in uniform" in Iraq--and that is where he will often run into problems. At times, his passion spills over into an almost Deanian imprudence. At a Texas fund raiser last week, Clark thundered, "We're dealing with the most closed, imperialistic, nastiest Administration in living memory. They even put Richard Nixon to shame. They are a threat to what this nation stands...
TRANSGRESSION Speaking at a fund raiser, the Senator joked that Mahatma Gandhi used to run a gas station in St. Louis...
Sometimes the tug of war between parents and children even reverses direction. Kendel Ratley, 23, a public relations account executive in New York City, misses her miniature dachshund, Loki, dreadfully and begs her mom to bring him for a visit. But Betty Ratley, a nonprofit fund raiser in Tyson's Corner, Va., has resisted, afraid Kendel won't let her take him home again. As for me, I can grumble all I want about my girls not taking their cats--because I know they never will. Recently when little Seis fell ill, I felt stricken. Caring for her was hard...
Barbara Cox was distraught. By the time the Darien, Conn., fund raiser was in her mid-50s, her hair had become thin and wispy. "I didn't want to go swimming," recalls Cox. "I didn't want to exercise because when I did and my hair got wet, it made the receding spots particularly apparent." Despite her distress, Cox never uttered a word. "I felt kind of silly obsessing about it, but it was increasingly important to me." Finally she broached the topic with her husband. "He said, 'You look fine. No problem,'" she says. But that didn't stop...