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...chance of being washed away in the national anti-insider tide. Says Seattle pollster Stuart Elway: "People in the Fifth District have the loudest voice in America if they want to see some changes in Congress, or to send a message to Congress." True enough, admits a Foley campaign strategist, but he warns: "It would be the most expensive telegram they've ever sent...
Lehman had also wearied of Garzarelli's independence. The star analyst insisted on working out of her Greenwich Village apartment, and issued bullish forecasts that clashed with the more bearish opinions of Katherine Hensel, the firm's chief market strategist. Garzarelli overestimated the strength of this year's market rally, for example, predicting that the Dow Jones average would hit 4600 by the end of 1994. The indicator has failed...
...Party strategists give the same poor reading to the convention's major no- show, Jack Kemp, who once seemed likely to be the torchbearer of the Republican right. In their view it has been a mistake for Kemp to insist that the G.O.P. must reach out to minorities. "We've got to repeal the old Southern strategy of the 1960s and 1970s," says Kemp. "We need a new strategy based on asking black and minority men and women to vote Republican -- and give them a reason to vote Republican." However laudable, that's not a message to win the hearts...
...Joint Chiefs of Staff. But the man who is now one of Clinton's designated interlocutors in Haiti still hasn't signaled whether he's a Republican, much less a presidential hopeful. "In my travels I hear a lot of interest in Powell among Republicans," says G.O.P. strategist William Kristol. "There is a hunger for a fresh face, a nonpolitician...
...part to recent archaeological finds in the arid lands of Inner Mongolia, now part of China, historians have begun to realize this perception of the medieval Mongols is woefully one-dimensional. Genghis Khan, their most celebrated leader, was not merely a bloodthirsty killer but also a supreme military strategist and talented politician, as adept at forging alliances and gathering intelligence as he was at wreaking terror and havoc. And the Mongol civilization he ruled had a rich cultural and artistic heritage that went back at least 6,000 years...