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...well- respected Capitol Hill veterans: Tennessee Senator Al Gore, who has strong defense and environment credentials, and Indiana's veteran Congressman Lee Hamilton, a foreign policy expert regarded as one of the House of Representatives' wisest heads. If the job goes to either man instead of an upstart newcomer like Pennsylvania Senator Harris Wofford or Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey, Clinton will be betting that even in a "weird" political year, more voters value Washington experience than resent...
Harvard has had other effects on the political scene this year. The corner stone of the machine that will likely run the upstart campaign of Texas billionaire H. Ross Perot came together at Harvard...
Jerry Brown's colorful career before he arrived on the presidential trail in 1992 speaks for itself. Besides the time off, he had spent nearly his entire adult life in the political arena--at times the upstart, at times the entrenched incumbent, but always a politician...
...week was in high dudgeon. "The knives are out for Fergie at the palace," said Paul Reynolds, BBC Radio's court correspondent. "I have never known such anger here." Reason: suspicions that the duchess had engineered a leak of the separation story. Fergie's friends denied it, but the upstart had already angered the Queen by hiring her own lawyers. "Unheard-of impertinence," huffed a senior palace official...
...courtroom, Myerson has been a master at proving deception in others, regularly badgering witnesses into submission and throwing himself shamelessly at juries. "Please God, find for us. God bless you," he begged jurors at the 1986 conclusion of his most famous case, an antitrust action brought by the upstart U.S. Football League against the monopolistic practices of the National Football League. Myerson and the U.S.F.L. won -- but they received a humiliating $3 in damages and the lesson that even courtroom victories are no guarantee of riches...