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...Forbes, the novelty of campaigning has worn off. Repetition is all. These days he doesn't give interviews; he endures them. A few months ago, he was the happy warrior on the trail; now he's a grim one, the flat-tax Terminator who repeats his lines by rote and marches relentlessly from event to event. While he has proved he has the fortitude for the race, some of the twinkle has gone out from behind those thick glasses...
Ready for anything, Road Warrior Part IX is part of the appeal, even if all you're heading for is the parking garage under the office building where you work. Riding high feels good. TV commercial actress Lonni Partridge of Manhattan Beach, California, traded her Mercedes sedan for a leased GMC Yukon last week. Her nine-year-old son and his baseball buddies fit better in it. But the high driving position makes Partridge feel more secure: "You don't have all the creeps in vans looking down at you." She feels physically more secure too: "When I drive...
...DEFENDING HER AGENCY AGAINST G.O.P. budget cutters, Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary has been an effective warrior. Defending her reputation, however, is becoming problematic. Her congressional critics, who plan to hold another round of hearings next month, may well discover new items to view with alarm. An investigation by the General Accounting Office has found that $255,000 worth of the expenses that O'Leary's delegations billed for trips to India and South Africa have no receipts or records to justify how the money was spent. Energy officials are searching for the records and tightening up accounting procedures. Critics...
...have never in my life seen him so torn up about something," admits Powell's son Michael. "You have to remember, this is a soldier. This is a warrior, who does not like walking away from a fight. It's not fear; it's not self-doubt. Every instinct in his bones says...
...leaders to Israel within the customary 24-hour period between death and burial, Rabin's state funeral was put off a day--until Monday afternoon. But Israelis themselves poured out their confused and troubled emotions on Sunday in a remarkable rite of homage. As a motorized cortege bore the warrior statesman up the highway from Tel Aviv to the Holy City, teary-eyed mourners lined the route. And when he came to rest in the brilliant blue November afternoon on a catafalque outside the Knesset, hundreds of thousands of Israelis, in a queue two kilometers long, filed quietly past...