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...back toward normal levels: After all, world markets are overflowing with oil. "I don't even expect much more movement in the stocks you historically see getting the most attention in these situations, like energy companies or defense-related businesses," says Gail Dudack, Warburg Dillon Reed's chief investment strategist...
...approaching a selling frenzy. All of that could change very quickly, though, if U.S. troops become involved on the ground. For now, some traders are taking some precautionary steps to get out of international stocks. "We have been doing some swapping," says Hugh Johnson, First Albany's chief investment strategist. "We've sold some stocks with big international exposure, like Dupont, ConAgra and Phillips Petroleum, and have bought Staples and McGraw Hill. I'm trying to make our portfolio a little more insulated from world events...
...more ambitious scheme--such as sending the U.S. Army on a search-and-destroy-Saddam mission--is politically and militarily foolish. Gulf War Army veteran John Hillen, a military strategist with the Council on Foreign Relations, believes such a campaign would be feasible only if Saddam did something really stupid, such as another lunge into Kuwait or a spectacular act of terrorism against U.S. citizens...
...that no "war room" existed. What we did have was neither sophisticated nor nefarious. It was a group of people who got together in Claverly Common Room once in a while to distribute posters and talk about how the campaign was going. David Wilhelm, the "professional Democratic party strategist" of which Oppenheim speaks, was a Fellow at the Institute of Politics at the time and a personal friend. I invited him to one of our gatherings so he could get a taste of campus life. He was neither solicited for, nor did he give, any advice to Lamelle...
Nowhere was this more evident than in Rawlins' 1996 presidential campaign and subsequent reign. The campus should have known it was in trouble when The Crimson reported in the weeks before the election that the Rawlins campaign had met with a professional Democratic party strategist. A degree of organization is necessary to run a successful campaign for any office, but Rawlins' inflated sense of self-importance was evident in the countless news items and word-of-mouth reports regarding the sophisticated War Room she employed to win that glorious office in the basement of Holworthy...