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...Iraq. But this much is clear: the agency's reputation has been demolished. "It may be that the CIA actually made tremendous efforts to protect its people," says Baram. "But the perception among Iraqis is that having anything to do with Americans is dangerous to your health." The rout will make the CIA's future tasks in the Middle East--and perhaps the rest of the world--harder still to achieve...
While the rest of the Clinton team cautions that the race will tighten, Morris predicts a rout. "The President will win by at least 10 points," he says, "and take back the House and Senate too." His cocksure style is a foil for Clinton's indecision. Morris likes to plunge into action; Clinton would just as soon wait and see. "Clinton loves to shop, and Morris loves to buy," says a White House official. "Clinton wants to browse forever; Morris wants to make off with the whole bookstore. It's a perfect marriage...
Those edges include talking secretly to Clinton in the fall of 1994 while working for a roster of prominent Republicans--including Lott, William Weld of Massachusetts and Tom Ridge of Pennsylvania. Morris told Clinton to prepare for a Republican rout and "get out of the way." In December 1994, when the Wall Street Journal reported that Clinton had turned to Morris for help, Morris called the story "totally fabricated" and claimed fealty to the G.O.P...
...President about five points in the polls, but Clinton could endure that with plenty to spare. A veto, however, would have repudiated the entire moderate, New Democrat stance--champion of family values, balanced budgets, more cops on the streets--that Clinton had been cultivating so assiduously since the rout of the Democrats in the 1994 elections. And, of course, there was that matter of his 1992 pledge to "end welfare as we know...
...Lindsay Davenport, who are close friends as well as teammates. At least one of them will take home a medal. Novotna's opponent in the semifinals will be No. 3 Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario of Spain. In women's basketball. the U.S. team finished the preliminary round with another rout, beating South Korea 105-64. Reserve Nikki McCray led five players in double figures with 16 points as the United States won its pool with a 5-0 record. Argentina qualified for the men's volleyball playoffs with a 3-1 win over Poland, putting more pressure on the United States...