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...best is over. But this year the trends aren't cooperating. The Republicans are running behind the Democrats in generic polls about the election, as much as 10% in some surveys. No one, especially the G.O.P., wants to be marketing scandal during the autumn. Better, as a Gingrich strategist put it, to intone, "'We have the papers; we're reviewing them. We have the papers; we're reviewing them.' That's what we would say. Over and over...
...urgently persuaded the caller that the allegation would not hold up in public and that coming forward was not worth the certain resultant embarrassment of the accuser. At that moment, it seemed, the full weight of the election's outcome was on the shoulders of a loyal campaign strategist, trying to quash yet one more rumor in the hours before the polls opened. Stephanopoulos today is an analyst at ABC, the first in Clinton's circle (past or present) to suggest that the President's alleged actions might call for impeachment. Such an apparent about-face, from the behind...
Stephanopoulos, unlike Powers and Woods, was not completely "made" by President Clinton. He was acknowledged as an intelligent strategist before the campaign and was central to the election of the President in 1992. We don't know what promises to Stephanopoulos Clinton made and then broke, but this kind of professional independence allowed him to grapple publicly with loyalty to principle where Powers and Woods knew only loyalty to person...
...multibillion-dollar company built by pretty good athletes to serve great athletes, a place where work is play and play is damned serious. "We are in the sports business, not the shoe business," says Mark Parker, a vice president and former shoe designer who has been Nike's chief strategist. "It is not just a better definition of what our epicenter is but what we are all about." That's why, for instance, Nike bought Canstar Sports, which makes Bauer hockey equipment and inline skates; why the swoosh has been extended, with middling results, to other equipment such as bats...
...tyrant himself. The generals on Wall Street are so certain of the outcome that in their minds they've already won the war and held the ticker-tape parade. And that's just the point. "There is a lot of room for disappointment," notes Tom McManus, a market strategist in Katonah, N.Y. "People have forgotten how easily things can go wrong." What if we don't quickly knock out Saddam's weapons of mass destruction? Other than a few diehard militarists, no one possesses the will to keep at it indefinitely...