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Throughout the '90s, Dean was a close Clinton watcher. Like Clinton, Dean used a political strategy of triangulation. On one hand, Dean alienated progressives by tightening spending and successfully pushing tax cuts. "Howard would start [each budget cycle] by cutting programs for the needy, things like wheelchairs and artificial limbs," says state auditor Elizabeth Ready, who has been both friend and foe to Dean. Horrified liberals would have to claw each benefit back from the tightfisted Governor. But at election time, Dean marginalized Republicans by appealing to socially liberal groups like environmentalists. "Every year, as the first thing...
...Washington seems to calculate that the risk cannot be avoided without confronting far greater dangers later. Iran watcher Michael Ledeen of the American Enterprise Institute, citing sources in Iran, says a delegation of mullahs traveled to Pyongyang a few months ago to discuss swapping nuclear technology for cash. It isn't known if the deal was concluded. But after the trip, top leaders of Iran's Revolutionary Guards were told that Iran would have its own nuclear weapons "soon," says Ledeen. Saddam Hussein's Iraq had no nukes. That regime is gone, but how much more frightening will Bush...
...dishes and creating new recipes, Ahn’s culinary interests extend beyond the kitchen as well. She enjoys eating and thinking about eating almost as much as cooking, and she can recommend a dish at a particular Boston restaurant for any occasion. Ahn is a faithful FoodTV watcher, an epicurious.com visitor and, most of all, an avid reader of Cook’s Illustrated, the magazine devoid of advertisements and devoted to informing its cult-like foodie following of the best products, recipes and in-kitchen procedures in a no-frills fashion...
...enough pockets to ride out the insurance industry's famously volatile cycles and capture more business in the long term as struggling firms fall away. "Over the past 18 months he's put his insurance business in a great position," says Thomas Russo, a money manager, long-time Buffett watcher and Berkshire shareholder at Gardner Russo & Gardner. "He alone has the capital, and I don't think Berkshire's stock price reflects that...
Pariser sits at the nexus of what Howard Rheingold would call a smart mob. Rheingold, a veteran technology watcher and well-published futurist (Tools for Thought, 1985; Virtual Reality, 1991; The Virtual Community, 1993), has put his finger on yet another transformative technology. In Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution (Perseus; 288 pages) he describes how large, geographically dispersed groups connected only by thin threads of communications technology--cell phones, text messaging, two-way pagers, e-mail, websites--can be drawn together at a moment's notice like schools of fish to perform some collective action...