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...national hero, Karelin enjoys advantages unknown to other athletes. "There's not another wrestler in the world who travels with a helicopter and a massager and two or three doctors and coaches," declares Ghaffari, who says he and Karelin regard each other with mutual respect. Small wonder that when Russian President Vladimir Putin's Unity Party needed a boost last year, it picked Karelin to run for a legislative seat. Today the wrestler denies rumors that he wants to be President. "It's a totally different level of responsibility," he says, "and I am not ready for it." Just running...
Watching Alan Greenspan to find out which way he and his fellow Federal Reserve policymakers will move on interest rates is like waiting to see if the groundhog spots his shadow. No matter what the outcome, it's the anticipation, the unknown, that makes everyone so nervous. This time around, investors were hoping Greenspan & Co. wouldn't see inflation's gloomy outline. Instead, they'd proclaim that their efforts to cool off what has been a red-hot economy had succeeded...
...waste crisis; he was misquoted on the subject, but the newspaper corrections didn't get the same play as the original charge. That's not to say Gore doesn't exaggerate; he does. But plenty of other people in his line of work do too. "It is not an unknown phenomenon," he notes dryly, "for politicians to tell the voters what they've done and, in the process, try to put the best face...
...eminently unelectable; two weeks later, with Joe Lieberman and a meaty acceptance speech under his belt, Gore and his adequately presented laundry list of presidential priorities seem to have a shot at properly benefiting from a stay-the-course mindset in this prosperous age. Bush may be the unknown again now - he's left Gore room to cast him as a smiling face with a dark reactionary soul, whereas Gore, however disconcerting his sudden bust of fighting populism may be to the satisfied corporate-employed swing vote, has at least set definite limits to his crusade...
...eminently unelectable; two weeks later, with Joe Lieberman and a meaty acceptance speech under his belt, Gore and his adequately presented laundry list of presidential priorities seem to have a shot at properly benefiting from a stay-the-course mindset in this prosperous age. Bush may be the unknown again now - he's left Gore room to cast him as a smiling face with a dark reactionary soul, whereas Gore, however disconcerting his sudden bust of fighting populism may be to the satisfied corporate-employed swing vote, has at least set definite limits to his crusade...