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...leader George Mitchell in a blunt call to Clinton, telling him that the nomination was doomed. When Biden could not get through to the President, he resorted to a final message: If his call was not returned immediately, he would state his opposition to Baird's nomination publicly. The tactic worked: Clinton called back and Biden told him the bad news. Baird meanwhile kept going with considerable poise and grit. "We kept telling her that she had to smile," a White House aide recalled. Two hours later, the hearings closed. At 10, Baird reached Cutler's office downtown, where Christopher...
Albert F. Gordon Jr. '59, a frequent contributor to the University, said yesterday that Harvard administrators have used unorthodox accounting techniques to inflate Harvard's budget deficit, perhaps as a tactic to lure new donors...
...press before the President-elect has a chance to reconsider. Clinton advisers contrast the alacrity with which Bill Bradley took his name out of the vice-presidential race last summer with the New Jersey Senator's palpable eagerness to be considered for Secretary of State. Another proven reputation-enhancement tactic is to float your own name for a job for which you are not being considered. According to Clinton insiders, Senator Bob Kerrey tried this trick during the vice-presidential sweepstakes, and they suspect that deputy transition director Alexis Herman recently put herself forward for Secretary of Labor...
Joseph P. Devine, manager of the Broadway,said, "I know we got caught twice." He said hebelieves such sting operations are a fair andappropriate tactic by police and licensingofficials. Cardullo's employees refused tocomment...
...sketchy. But within 24 hours, Clinton suggested that Bush's conciliatory posture toward China might not have been as counterproductive as he had once believed. A Clinton official denied that any reversal had occurred a day later. But the President-elect's back-and-forth maneuver, also a common tactic of Bush's, led an outgoing White House official to remark, "It all sounds eerily familiar...