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...conservative faction of aides, including Schwarzenegger's chief of staff, is at war with a liberal one led by Arnold's wife Maria Shriver, who has taken a newly aggressive role in trying to burnish his image. "Nobody really knows who is in charge," says Allan Hoffenblum, a Republican strategist in Los Angeles. "His followers want to rally around the flag, but they can't find the flagpole." The Governor's spokesman, Rob Stutzman, says the press has been "mischaracterizing robust discussion as a split...
...there a way to predict which outside firms will prevail in Russia? Christopher Weafer, chief strategist at Alfa Bank in Moscow, talks about Russia as a "triple- layer" economy: on the top is the nation's fiscal strength, on the bottom the roiling consumer sector (mobile-phone subscriptions notched up another record in March, and Ford sold one-third more cars in the first quarter of this year than it did a year ago). But Weafer cautions about the middle layer: energy and other areas that could be construed by the Kremlin as being of strategic value. There, investment risk...
...between news and humor, but his Daily Show airs on a comedy channel. Coulter goes on actual news programs and deploys so much sarcasm and hyperbole that she sounds more like Dennis Miller than Limbaugh. Consider an exchange on Fox News in June 2001 with Peter Fenn, a Democratic strategist. At the time, Barbra Streisand had suggested that Californians practice more conservation, to which Coulter responded...
...most powerful forces holding back the conservative tide has been a small, slightly rumpled, elderly gentleman with a ready smile and a legendary gift for gab, William J. Brennan Jr. Court observers agree that the liberal Justice, even in the supposed exile of dissent, has emerged as the master strategist of the Burger court...
...There is a distinction on Capitol Hill between Regan's grasp for power and his ability to use it wisely," summarizes a Republican strategist. Not just on Capitol Hill, either. No one in Washington doubts Regan's power, but there is a nagging sense that he may lack the collegial temperament to use it as judiciously and effectively as is necessary in such a political town. --By George J. Church. Reported by Sam Allis and Laurence I. Barrett/Washington