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...news that status is perishable is the eternal lesson of Washington, where handling the big levers of power is no guarantee you won't slip through the trapdoor that opens anytime enough people pull those little levers in the voting booth. (Ask Tom Foley about that.) This is why so many people in that city prefer to seek influence, whether by virtue of the strength of their ideas or their access. The powerful are apt to look a bit careworn, while the winners of the influence game tend to be less accountable in public and for the most part more...
...exotic ideas." Several remember he wore fatigues to school, a peculiar fashion choice at that time. He also brought his fascination with secret places with him. History teacher Hank Flandysz remembers lecturing one day when a noise emanated from beneath the floorboards. "I walked over, and there was a trapdoor in the floor that led into some maintenance tunnels for access to the heating pipes," he says. "The trapdoor lifted up, and there looking up at me was Mark Koernke. He asked me, 'What room is this...
Zedillo, who was hurriedly designated the P.R.I.'s presidential candidate last year after the party's first choice, Luis Donaldo Colosio, was assassinated, could be forgiven if he feels as if he has fallen through a trapdoor. He took office a few days before a financial crisis erupted that his predecessor, Carlos Salinas de Gortari, had done little to prepare either Zedillo or the nation for. But Zedillo's performance so far has not reassured the foreign-government officials and financiers who will have to bail Mexico out. The Clinton Administration, says a Senate staff member who regularly deals with...
...signatures. And a normally divisive coalition of the computer industry giants have voiced opposition to the Clinton administration's new plan. Apple, I.B.M., Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Digital Equipment and Unisys are all supporting an encryption standard proposed by RSA Data Security that does not have a "trapdoor" for the government to monitor messages and files...
...sides remain far apart. The Croats are insisting on forming a separate, strong entity within the union, which the Muslims fear will serve as a trapdoor for eventual secession to Croatia. There are also disputes over where internal borders should be drawn -- and whether Muslim refugees could return. One Croat official said there was so much mutual hatred that Washington's idea of confederation was "applying Madison Avenue standards to a Bronxlike situation." But the pace of discussions accelerated as Christopher brought the key players together in Washington to work out a deal...