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...gigantic mistake," and his panel has called for the Pentagon to make the shots optional until a better version comes along. But Shays doesn't have anywhere near the votes needed to get the shots stopped. Ask folks around here about Congress riding to my rescue, and they shake their heads and smile...
...months Gore had been thinking about a dramatic move to shake things up. Now he was ready to make it happen. Leaving a Maryland fund raiser, Gore quietly asked Coelho if he would ride home with him. Back at the residence, they summoned Eskew and roused Gore's new chief of staff, Charles Burson, from bed. Gore wanted to move the campaign to Nashville, Tenn. Setting up his headquarters on K Street in Washington had been a huge mistake--a symbol of a clueless inside-the-Beltway campaign. But the problem was that no one knew...
...staff shake-ups and ad blitzes in the world wouldn't have helped if Gore hadn't helped himself. He took on the difficult process of shedding his vice-presidential carapace and revealing himself to voters. He had a nice new riff about his Vietnam- and Watergate-era disillusionment with politics, but the New Gore wasn't always a pretty sight. He often seemed as hyper and needy as a ninth-grader on a first date. But at least voters realized that he was truly, madly, deeply committed to winning, and they liked that about him. Bradley's cool, take...
...Airbus executive who has worked with Leahy since his arrival calls him "small of stature but hard-driving and aggressive--like Napoleon--with large eyes that can fix the most powerful gaze on you." When he gazed at Airbus, Leahy saw a stuffy organization in need of a shake-up. One of Leahy's American-style innovations, says this official, was the open office. "He literally broke down the walls between the sales guys, the contract guys and the airline analysts, and put them together in regional units. The results speak for themselves." Says another colleague: "Once John sinks...
...circumstances--colleges would be forced to drop the relevant facts into the right holes and resign themselves to whatever decision the financial aid standards dictate. If some mishap or oversimplification of need and ability ties David's hands before he can offer the first blow, we can only shake our heads, sigh and remind him that we are only trying to be fair...