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...Switching our stroke has made a bit of a difference," Senftleben said. "We've been able to get our stroke rating up and the sway in the boat was a lot better...
...north and over parts of the Shi'ite south, he has bottled up the insurgents in both regions so they do not threaten his rule. Every step he takes has been aimed at buttressing his authority. He rebuilt Baghdad and the central region, where his Sunni Muslim backers hold sway; he gives government workers and members of the armed forces regular pay increases and relentlessly bombards the nation with self-serving propaganda...
JOHN GRISHAM'S EARLIER THRILLERS The Firm and The Pelican Brief were a bit overwhooped and underthrilling. But his newest novel THE CLIENT (Doubleday; $23.50) works a lot better, possibly because the author's wide-eyed narrative style fits the title figure. Mark Sway is the kind of 11-year-old boy who picks trouble out of the air the way a seagull fields thrown french fries. He becomes the client of a bodacious middle-aged woman defense attorney by overhearing a gabby, Mob-connected New Orleans lawyer as this fellow is rambling his way toward suicide. Soon the clownish...
...transition officials insist that the greatest challenge is the least concrete: to make clear to the public that the Attorney General is not just the President's lawyer, and that the Justice Department is not in the pocket of whatever special interests hold sway in Washington at this political moment. "The new leadership is going to have to project the idea," says a Clinton adviser, "that we are going to enforce the law fairly, for all citizens...
...does Clinton seem eager to hurl spears at the Democratic special interests that have long held sway over party doctrine. When the Clintons decided to send their 13-year-old daughter Chelsea to a private school, they failed to accompany the announcement with any challenge to public schools or teachers' unions to make themselves more competitive. On the contrary: Clinton's designated Education Secretary vowed that the President-elect opposed a pilot program to extend to lower- and middle-income families the choice of private schools that the Clintons enjoy. "One is left wondering," said a Clinton adviser, "when...