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While the Spotlight paintings are fully executed portraits, they are usually commissioned on a crash basis. The process begins Wednesday morning, when Smith meets with editors to choose the week's subject, then turns to his Rolodex of 160 artists. He and the selected artist exchange sketches and notes via fax, and by 5 o'clock Friday afternoon a finished work of art has arrived in his office, usually by messenger or express delivery...
...Bill Clinton is going to have to work with moderate Republicans and forge coalitions across party lines," King says. "He doesn't have the names of moderate Republicans in his rolodex...
When members of Harvard's women's basketball team look back on the 1993-94 season, their rolodex memories will instantly flip to February 19, the day that they packed up the bus and headed to Philadelphia for a game with perennial powerhouse Pennsylvania...
...long: What is the Administration's point of view on Peru? How much foreign aid do we give El Salvador? Did Italy pressure the U.S. to curtail prosecution of the B.N.L. banking scandal? "I seldom know the answer immediately," says McAllister. "But I know whom to call. My computer Rolodex has . . . let me see . . . 857 entries...
...addition to his well-stuffed Rolodex, McAllister brings to his job considerable expertise. A summa cum laude graduate of Yale (where he specialized in American diplomatic history), he went to Manila as a Luce scholar and to London as a Marshall scholar, earning a Ph.D. in history and writing the memoirs of U. Alexis Johnson, a former Under Secretary of State. He returned to Yale for a law degree, clerked for a federal judge in San Francisco and worked as a corporate lawyer in New York City -- but kept being drawn back to journalism, reporting...