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...anyone has the inside track at the moment, it's Ohio's Voinovich. At 59, he boasts a seven-page resume: county auditor, state legislator, big-city mayor, two-term Governor. A Catholic from usually Democratic Cleveland, Voinovich is a mainstream Republican with a reputation as a problem solver and a 73% approval rating...
...favors rhythm and blues and Clinton's "don't ask, don't tell" policy toward gays in the military, become the darling of primary voters in the space of four months. The veteran lawmaker proudly cites his 35 years of public service as the most gifted legislative problem solver of his generation, only to be scorched by Forbes ads labeling him a "Washington insider," the guy who calls Gomorrah home. For Dole, it is a painful reprise of 1988, when he was beaten back by George Bush, another patrician playing the populist and making dubious promises about taxes. "Dole spent...
...have always found him to be very honest and very bright and a real problem solver," said Elizabeth D. Scheibel, district attorney for Hampshire and Franklin counties and the president of the Massachusetts District Attorney's Association...
Such failures make up only isolated counts of a wider indictment. British journalist Rosemary Righter, whose new book critiquing the U.N. is called Utopia Lost, notes that the planetary problem solver figured as a mere bystander in the climactic upheaval of the past 50 years: the Soviet empire's collapse, Germany's unification and the cold war's end. She says, "This was probably the greatest political challenge of this decade, yet it didn't occur to the Russians or East Europeans or anyone else that the U.N. was relevant...
Sony Corp. chose a 57-year-old dark horse with a strong reputation as a problem solver as its next president. Nobuyuki Idei, who leapfrogged over two management levels to the top spot, is passionately committed to the company's entertainment businesses, despite $3.2 billion in losses and write-offs at its Hollywood studio last year...