Word: regente
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...DiGenova, a former independent counsel and U.S. Attorney in the Reagan Administration, points out, "It's another unfortunate circumstance which is unnecessarily distracting." DiGenova faults Starr too for continuing his $1-million-a-year law practice, which includes tobacco clients, and for speaking at Clinton-basher Pat Robertson's Regent University. "Ken's a fine man, but he doesn't listen to criticism. He'd be better off if he had not represented certain clients or given certain speeches," says DiGenova. "He's made another terrible mistake, and there's only so much...
...those who haven't yet caught his hilarious shtick, Connerly is the Sacramento businessman and University of California regent who last year spearheaded the campaign for Proposition 209. Maybe it's just my twisted sense of humor, but Connerly has been cracking me up ever since he agreed to chair that anti-affirmative-action crusade. I laughed out loud when I heard that in 1991 this man who says that his hatred for racial preferences is so intense it "seeps out of every pore" had registered his consulting firm as a black-owned business in order to keep state contracts...
...pushed out one rival, the populist general Alexander Lebed, and--for the time being at least--has outmaneuvered another, the uncharismatic but formidable Prime Minister, Victor Chernomyrdin. During the months of Yeltsin's illness, Chubais controlled access to the President so tightly that his enemies dubbed him "the Regent...
...remote as he has been up to now, until the New Year. As he recovers, he will rule largely through three people. His Prime Minister, the stolid Viktor Chernomyrdin, will present the administration's reassuring face--business as usual. His chief of staff, Anatoli Chubais, sardonically nicknamed the Regent by his enemies, will be the strategic powerhouse of the regime. And the key will be Yeltsin's younger daughter, Tatyana Dyachenko, who is the most trusted channel of political information to and from the President...
...either clean or an outsider. He is widely alleged to be corrupt, and is a muddied Kremlin infighter. But during his postdismissal press conference, Lebed strongly defended Korzhakov as a "slandered Russian general." He borrowed some of Korzhakov's language and analysis, describing Chubais disparagingly as Russia's "regent" who had deliberately undermined Yeltsin's health by pushing the President too hard during this year's election campaign...