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...management, wearied by Battle's incessant demands -- last year, she abruptly pulled out of a Met Rosenkavalier after a tiff with conductor Christian Thielemann -- informed Columbia Artists' formidable president, Ronald Wilford, that Battle would be fired. Wilford asked that the decision be postponed a couple of days and, in a meeting with Volpe on Feb. 7, pleaded Battle's case. "Enough is enough," Volpe told him. "This has to stop." Later that day, after Battle left him three telephone messages, Volpe finally called her back and told her she was fired. Says Volpe: "Please understand that I pride myself...
Meanwhile, Back Home. In addition, incumbents could take advantage of the old saw that "all politics is local." "It's the self-preservation instinct at work," says political scientist Greg Thielemann of the University of Texas at Dallas. "Pork-barreling in our direction is O.K." Ironically, a general anti-Washington feeling can work to an incumbent's advantage. The more people distrust the yahoos in Congress, the more inclined they are to cling to "their guy" as their one defender against congressional tomfoolery...
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