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...battle started last November in Richmond with Virginia's new Republican Governor, George Allen Jr., allying himself with "the mouse," a sobriquet used by the locals and even Disney itself to describe the dozens of lawyers and lobbyists who descended on the state capitol. The mouse was managed by Mark Pacala, a negotiator who threatened to walk out of Virginia if Disney did not get what it demanded. Many legislators, while incensed, were still scared of losing such a potential cash cow. After months of wrangling, Virginia will give Disney the support structure it wants but will force the company...
Sure, Saddam Hussein is a very bad man. Buy why did President Clinton wait until two weeks ago to react against "a recent rash of terrorist activity." Perhaps it has something to do with his new sobriquet, the "43 Percent President." Why is popularity so important to a person just beginning a guaranteed four-year term...
...tense strategic debates, What It Takes is not Theodore White's Making of the President series revisited. For one thing, Cramer views the overpaid and overpraised parade of pollsters and media advisers as a comic chorus to be irreverently dismissed as "wise guys," "Big Guys," "killers" and (his sobriquet for the Bush team) "White Guys." Unlike the sainted Teddy White and the current crop of political reporters who grew up on his mythmaking, Cramer loathes, not loves, the modern political process...
...desk is clean, save for the week's schedule of media interviews and a list of Perot coordinators in all 50 states. But at a time when Bush and Clinton are racing around the country, giving speeches, honing positions, posing against scenic backdrops, this small man, who loves the sobriquet "Billionaire Boy Scout," suddenly leads the polls. A TIME/CNN survey last week by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman underlines Perot's surprising appeal: he wins a three-way race for the White House with 33% to Bush's 28%, with Clinton trailing at 24%. Perot has done the impossible: crafted a credible...
...well. Because before Siegel got around to reinventing Las Vegas, his most important project was reinventing himself. Far better known in the press and gossip of his glory days, the 1940s, as "Bugsy," he was perhaps the most famous mobster of his era. Not that he liked his colorful sobriquet (he tended to punch out people who used it in his presence) or his public identification as a hood (his preference was "sportsman...