Word: secret
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hillary, Americans could buy one and get one free. That proved too true for his own good. The Dole camp, having studied the pathology of Hillary's troubles early last year, is eager to argue that this is a marriage, not a political partnership. Dole has called Elizabeth his "secret weapon," his "Southern strategy," all the while making it clear that he is old-fashioned about the East Wing, that Elizabeth won't be sitting in on Cabinet meetings and serving as the unofficial Minister of Health Care...
...spectacular red sunset on the horizon. At the end of a long day, she kneads his shoulders, rubs his arm in encouragement, shoots him a supportive smile. Dole, the good Midwesterner, is allergic to public displays of affection--except from his Elizabeth. They seem to share a secret code of gestures: Elizabeth pats him on the lower back ("Bob, we need to get going"); she rubs his hand ("Don't look so glum--smile!"); she loops her arm around his waist and firmly tugs ("Quit talking to these reporters, and don't make any of your smart-aleck jokes...
...Hubbell, the former Associate Attorney General who is serving time for inflating billing records at the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock. And after briefly trying to assign the task to the FBI, Attorney General Janet Reno has asked Starr to investigate how the White House got hold of secret bureau files on officials of the Bush and Reagan administrations. Reno's pass to him undercuts Administration attempts to portray the special prosecutor as an unindicted co-conspirator of the Dole campaign, just a courtroom branch of the Republican election-year strategy...
...version of Filegate, that White House operatives Craig Livingstone and Anthony Marceca had been working from an outdated list of names, was disputed last week before a House committee. Nancy Gemmell, Marceca's predecessor in his job, said she left him an up-to-date list. Richard Miller, a Secret Service official, denied that his agency could have provided the White House with an access list that included names from previous administrations...
...TIME's secret weapon: senior writer STEVE WULF. Nearly a year ago, Wulf began pushing the idea of a special issue devoted to the Olympic centennial. His proposal was accepted--on the condition that he set aside his hat as one of TIME's more eloquent and energetic writers to supervise the project. The magazine you're about to read is the happy result...