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Franks is clearly shrewd about avoiding battles he cannot win. Too shrewd, some say. When the Bush Administration wanted Jim Wilkinson, a former Bush campaign aide, to be Franks' spokesman--a job that has traditionally gone to a uniformed officer--the general went along, though many in the military complained that the move politicized a position that should remain apolitical. But a senior Pentagon official said Franks had no choice: "It is not a given that George Bush will win re-election next year, but it is a given that he will lose if this war goes badly...
...bottom of twin wells. Yet, instead of frightening children, Ed Sullivan charms the whole family...After whipping up a new show every Sunday night for seven years, Ed has formulated some definite theories. Each program must contain 1) something children will like, 2) comedy...His added ingredient is a shrewd combination of news and human interest...Sullivan presented Helen Hayes shortly after the tragic polio death of her 19-year-old daughter; Broadway director Josh Logan, who had suffered a breakdown, spoke feelingly on Ed's show about the problems of mental health. Observes Ed: "It's things like these...
...shrewd enough not to court annihilation by using a nuclear device. "He is very knowledgeable about what goes on in the international scene," South Korean President Kim Dae Jung recently told TIME. And yet Kim apparently is convinced that he will someday go to war with the U.S. According to Kim Hyun Shik, a former professor at Kim Il Sung University in Pyongyang, the North Korean leader watched the Gulf War closely and even ordered a film produced that analyzed the weak points of the U.S. military. The conclusion: Iraq lost because it lacked the will to attack U.S. troops...
...step of the process will be to seek input from people who supported this issue. As you know, I didn't." Last week he met with groups he rarely talks to, many of who opposed his reelection, like the state's teachers union and PTAs. This might be a shrewd strategy, because if the class size effort fails, Bush can always blame its advocates and remind voters he never supported the measure anyway. Petulance and blame-shifting, however, are not very attractive qualities for a man who may run for senator or president...
...from backward-looking members of the older generation of black activists and politicians, including some of his colleagues in the Congressional Black Caucus. The sheer meanness - and downright stupidity - of the vituperation is an indication of the intellectual bankruptcy of what currently passes for black leadership. Ford is too shrewd to talk openly about the insults himself, but they obviously stung him. Not content to criticize Ford on the legitimate grounds of his callowness and lack of legislative accomplishments, some dredged up his "high yellow" skin color to discredit him with darker-skinned blacks. Others, like a certain well-known...