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...quiet and unassuming Kagame, a brilliant battlefield tactician whose family fled to Uganda during anti-Tutsi pogroms 40 years ago, is now president of Rwanda. On Feb. 5, he will visit Harvard's Institute of Politics and likely share with audiences his vision of a Rwanda without ethnicity...
...owner in 1989, Landry remained a silent, mournful football widower, reproachfully if silently carrying a torch for the team that moved on without him to further victories. At his firing, he shed public tears, which shocked an America that saw him as the faultlessly tailored, taciturn but brilliant sideline tactician. "Fireproof, bulletproof, emotionproof," the writer Pete Axthelm once said. Landry had a right to the tears. He had been coach since Dallas joined the NFL in 1960 and had nurtured the team from its winless first season through five Super Bowls and two world championships. In Landry's 29 years...
...coordinated series of attacks bore all the hallmarks of Aslan Maskhadov. Ineffectual and indecisive as Chechnya's President, the former Soviet army colonel is a formidable tactician in wartime. Unlike many of his field commanders, who are fighting for Allah or because it is the thing they do best, Maskhadov views the struggle as a way of forcing the Russians back to the negotiating table, where he wants to win recognition of Chechnya's independence. He is waging a classic guerrilla struggle, aimed at public opinion and the political elite in Moscow. The objective is to undermine Russia's confidence...
Bush can also take comfort in the state's affection for front runners--particularly those named Bush. In 1988, George Bush's tactician, Lee Atwater, set up a "fire wall" in South Carolina, building up such support that the Governor's father was able to bury a threat from Bob Dole. And unlike New Hampshire, which takes pride in wobbling the status quo, South Carolina has regularly put a warm arm around the party establishment's candidate and eventual G.O.P. nominee. It saved Dole after Pat Buchanan's surprise New Hampshire victory...
...fight to win the vote for women was actually a kind of religious movement. Theorist Stanton and tactician Anthony transposed an evangelical fervor into a social one, moving, via moral causes like temperance (embraced by proto-feminists to stop domestic abuse), to a lifelong devotion to women's liberty and the vote, an objective neither lived to see achieved. The four-hour double profile does well by focusing a decades-long movement on this symbiotic friendship...