Word: reminders
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...testimony so distorted the situation in Bosnia that a senior State Department official had to remind the secretary of the facts--that the Serbs were responsible for the vast majority of the crimes...
...permanency of the relationship between Harvard and Cavalier, through Murphy, is all but written in stone. The checklists Briefer uses year after year to plan the 25th reunion remind her to schedule a meeting with Murphy and Cavalier President Joan Libby in mid-winter...
...several black lawmakers. One telephone conversation between a Cabinet officer and an undecided lawmaker went like this: "Congressman, I'm sitting here chewing my fingers and wondering what else we can do to win this vote. I know you've talked to the President, and he wanted me to remind you how important this vote is to him and our party and our country. He knows this is a tough vote for you, and he and I both want you to know that if you can be with us, we won't forget it . . . Well, yes, I think...
...modern presidency -- this assessment from a 1983 New York Times editorial has become a totem among senior Administration officials. "Reagan was a goner, right?" says a Clinton adviser. "But then the business cycle took an upturn, and he won big a year later. Reagan's ups and downs remind us to take the long view. Bill Clinton won't be dead until he's laid out with his sax." It's simple, the President himself explained privately to a group of aides at Camp David on Jan. 30: "If we create jobs and reform health care, we'll be returned...
...worked hard and played by the rules and who eschewed the cultural elite for a decaf at McDonald's is now perceived as being concerned more about gays in the military, abortion-rights activists, and loading up his Cabinet with millionaire lawyers than with Middle America. "The President should remind himself," says presidential scholar Stephen Hess, "that the people who elected him get their hair cut, not styled, by barbers named Ed, not Cristophe, and they pay in cash, not personal-services contracts." The speed of passage of the haircut from Beltway to Burbank monologue set a new indoor record...