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Philandering former presidential political guru and fink-du-jour DICK MORRIS doesn't have much luck when it comes to the tabloids. One such publication blew the lid off his high-powered job as Clinton's chief political strategist when it published photos of him having strategic sessions with a woman who was clearly not his wife--or another consultant. And now a tabloid has published excerpts from his new book, Behind the Oval Office, thus helping wipe out his chances of having a magazine pay to excerpt it. Morris opens the book with an apology to his wife, President...
...Boris Yeltsin recovers from a near fatal bout with heart disease, who's the real power behind Russia's President? Most Kremlin watchers would point to a consummate political strategist named Anatoli Chubais (Choo-by-iss), the organizer of Yeltsin's come-from-behind election win last summer and the favorite of the country's influential new entrepreneurs...
...long will the celebration last? "Common sense tells you it's got to end," says Hugh Johnson, market strategist at First Albany Corp. But he also points out that on a trailing 12-month basis, the Dow is up 15% or more for 18 consecutive months--a streak unparalleled since the 1950s. As long as the Clinton-Congress stalemate holds, "it's very hard to shoot holes in this picture," he says...
...flirted with the populist attack on elites, a venerable Democratic tactic that Richard Nixon borrowed for his own purposes. Now that Buchanan was giving that message a serious class-based edge, however, G.O.P. leaders flinched and ran. "The Republican Party can't do more than mouth populism," says G.O.P. strategist Kevin Phillips...
...past 18 months co-authored by Gibbs and Duffy (who, coincidentally, joined TIME on the same day in 1985). Other highlights of this week's issue include some familiar names and some unfamiliar juxtapositions: Jay Leno and Gloria Steinem offer the President some free advice; fallen campaign strategist Dick Morris urges Clinton to stick to the center in his second term; playwright Wendy Wasserstein has some light-hearted tips for the First Lady; Slate editor Michael Kinsley puts Clinton's victory in historical per-spective; and investigative reporter James Stewart explores how scandal could derail Clinton's second term...