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...assistant Secretary of State in February for a lucrative career on Wall Street, is probably delighted to be back, says Fisher. There is even speculation that the forceful and skilled negotiator is being considered for the top State Department position, to replace Warren Christopher, in the event of a second-term Clinton Administration. -- Lamia Abu-Haidar
...time G.O.P. senators met last week to elect a replacement for Bob Dole as majority leader, the result was a foregone conclusion. Which is exactly how Trent Lott had planned it. After Dole's surprise announcement in May that he would resign from Congress, the second-term Senator from Mississippi with made-for-TV hair needed just one day of lobbying his colleagues to be confident of victory. "I work fast," said Lott, who also talks fast, after he swamped fellow Mississippian Thad Cochran by a vote of 44 to 8. "I probably talked to 40 Senators within 24 hours...
Capello arrived at the College in September 1993 as a second-term sophomore and a Music concentrator. Three weeks after his arrival he was elected manager of the Jazz Band, joined the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, and gained a reputation for being Harvard's best bassist and one of its nicest guys. But all this was not enough. "There was so much to do here, and I became frustrated with just a music degree," he recalls, "I had never experienced such a diversity of opinion and character...
...Todd Tiahrt, a freshman from Kansas. "All the issues we have been talking about for the past 12 months are still very important to us." But to others, Gingrich was simply facing reality. "We're drained and we're tired, and we're not moving ahead," said a Republican second-term Congressman. "If the troops don't get a break soon, we will crack." He also noted a favorite Gingrich maxim, not original to him, which says the definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing over and over again and expect a different result...
...EARLY GLIMPSE OF THE essential Bob Dole, one needs to revisit a summer day in 1964. Dole was then a second-term Congressman from Kansas, and he sat calmly in a Senate conference room while Karl Mundt, an archconservative from South Dakota, tore into the school-lunch program. "Come off it, Senator," Dole finally said. "These are kids we're talking about here...