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...closer to Bush personally. But Rove is the intellectual and strategic heart of the campaign, the one adviser to Bush who, insiders say, is indispensable. "Karl plays politics like Bobby Fischer plays chess," says Mark McKinnon, Bush's top media adviser, a former Democrat. "He looks at the whole board and thinks 20 moves ahead...
...pretty much screaming that he did cocaine at one point," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan. "You wonder why he didn?t just say that before ?- the whole story could have been squelched so easily." Did he really think he could win? "This is an object lesson in how difficult it is to fend off this media hunger for investigation into private lives," says Branegan. "[Former Clinton press secretary] Mike McCurry called it 'telling the truth slowly,' but I don?t think it?s done Bush any good, dragging it out like this." It?s the lesson every politician...
...pretty much screaming that he did cocaine at one point," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan. "You wonder why he didn?t just say that before ?- the whole story could have been squelched so easily." Did he really think he could win? "This is an object lesson in how difficult it is to fend off this media hunger for investigation into private lives," says Branegan. "[Former Clinton press secretary] Mike McCurry called it 'telling the truth slowly,' but I don?t think it?s done Bush any good, dragging it out like this." It?s the lesson every politician...
...story. Its kid hero, Hogarth, is full of bounce and bravery; the car-gnawing, train-wrecking giant is enthusiastically educable in his genially klutzy way. But the largest fun lies in the other characters: jut-jawed Kent Mansley, the funny-dumb government agent who has bought into the whole duck-and-cover thing; Dean, the beatnik junk sculptor whose cool helps thwart Kent's heat; Hogarth's mother, an old-fashioned, benignly clueless sit-com mom. Together they create a smart live-and-let-live parable, full of glancing, acute observations on all kinds of big subjects--life, death...
...easy it is to lose a job because the car broke down and there is no public bus, or because a kid was sent home sick from school and the mother needed to be home too. "So now we're developing, just out of compassion and knowledge, a whole group of people that are becoming voices for day care, for medical insurance, for transportation needs," says Van Riper...