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...undermined by the unceasing attacks on Vance by Carter's National Security Adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski. Berger's instinct, like Clinton's, is to build a consensus rather than obliterate opponents, "to get the job done with the least amount of damage," as a friend puts it. Lake calls this trait "a taste for communal enterprise." During the campaign, that attention to bridge building brought many lapsed Democratic foreign policy heavies like Jeane Kirkpatrick and Paul Nitze back into the fold and helped accomplish the goal, as Berger put it, of "keeping foreign policy off the front pages," so Clinton could...
...early in the new president's tenure to predict how a film called Carey would play. But the current boss has at least one trait in common with Hoffa: a ferocious and relentless tendency to attack the government for trying to clean up the union. When Carey was elected a year ago on a promise to rid the union of organized crime, federal agents and prosecutors were overjoyed by the underdog's surprise victory. Now they wonder if their confidence was misplaced. "He definitely has not been a corruption fighter so far," says Edward Ferguson, who recently served...
...half a century, the character and the resolve of the U.S. President mattered to Europeans in the most visceral sense -- survival. The nuclear football that Clinton will inherit on Jan. 20 now seems almost a cold war anachronism, but the tendency to look anxiously toward Washington remains an inborn trait. The human mind abhors a power vacuum; even in the dying years of the Roman Empire, free men could probably rattle off the names and pedigrees of Emperors like Petronius Maximus, Majorian and Severus...
Hirsch knows it. He feels the pressure like everybody else, but he is calm--intense but calm, a trait that has earned the respect of his teammates and coaches. He is ready to charge the thin blue line for the last time in his career...
...possibly the earth's most ancient life-forms, bacteria are experts at the game of survival. Throw a bunch of them onto an ice floe or into the steaming heart of Old Faithful, and one or another of the unicellular beasties will probably turn out to possess a critical trait that enables it to live through the ordeal and pass that trait on to trillions of descendants, a rapid example of evolution through natural selection. Just as predation by lions has gradually increased the swiftness of gazelles, the use of antibiotics has spurred the emergence of bacteria that can effectively...