Word: secret
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dole sounded pretty happy when it was all over, chortling like a kid about keeping a secret, doing a good deed, being "back in the game." It certainly was a stunning way to come out of retirement. By lending Newt Gingrich $300,000 at 10% interest to pay off an ethics-committee fine, Dole had preserved Gingrich's job as House Speaker (at least for now), done his party a favor and maybe even saved a marriage along...
...Baer and close Clinton confidants, including Mark Penn, whose brilliant work helped reposition Clinton to win last fall. "Mostly," says Baer, "the Brits this time were interested mainly in tactics, like how their war room should be set up, as if it alone, without the substance, was the secret to victory." Another Clinton associate debriefed by Blair's men says, "They had stolen all our ideas earlier. This time they were intrigued by things like how we put the train trip together during last summer's convention." It was "what I would call due diligence," says Penn. "They wanted...
...according to people close to the couple, Jeffrey so frightened them that they essentially went into hiding, first in Montana, then in Minneapolis, where they moved in 1993 and where Erdrich and Dorris, on leave from Dartmouth, continued their writing. Their location, says a friend, was "a secret that had to be kept because they really believed someone in their lives would find them and hurt them...
...What I want to do," says Ryan, "is to persuade students that although [the analysis of poetry] might seem like a secret skill, it's something quite learnable...
Katharine Hepburn turns 90 next month, and there will be the usual round of parties and tell-all books to celebrate the event. One of them, An Affair to Remember by Christopher Andersen, tells the story of how J. Edgar Hoover wanted to blow open the secret affair between Hepburn and Spencer Tracy because of Hepburn's opposition to the House Un-American Activities Committee. Why didn't he? He was talked out of it by a young committee member: Richard Nixon...