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...story reads like the plot of a James Bond movie, but has the potential to end in the silliness of an Austin Powers flick...
...first place. Carnahan may look like a grandmotherly Betty Crocker, but she has the steely resolve of Hillary Clinton coupled with the good sense not to have boasted about being a co-Governor. When her children were young and her husband was a municipal judge, she led drives for bond issues to raise money for parks and schools. As her husband worked his way up to Governor, she was his de facto campaign manager, writing speeches, honing campaign themes and building a political base by jotting on 3-by-5 cards the particulars of everyone they ever...
...office stacked with newly delivered furniture. As a third camera crew pushed its way in her face, Carnahan rolled a chair to position a rescue for a pregnant woman about to topple. There was barely space for the bouquet of lilies sent by Missouri's senior Senator, Kit Bond, or the senatorial documents already arriving. Her first headline event is the confirmation hearings of Attorney General nominee John Ashcroft, the Carnahan family's longtime political adversary, whom her husband beat for the Senate seat. About Ashcroft's hearings, she will only say she's open-minded, but it's doubtful...
...system for business borrowers. For Bush, the prospect of a big across-the-board tax cut is more attractive than it's been in years, but he'd better make sure it's fiscally sound enough get a few kind words from Greenspan, who got the inflation-hawk bond markets behind deficit reduction by calling Clinton's first budget "credible" and "serious." Bush's must be worthy of similar praise...
Browder has been one of the few foreigners to engage Russia's economic oligarchs in battle. In late 1997 he took on Vladimir Potanin, at the time Russia's top banker. Potanin had offered a closed bond issue for Sidanko, a major oil company that was one of his pet properties, to insiders of his own choosing. Browder cried foul and adroitly used the Western press to plead his case that the new shares arising from the bond issue would dilute minority shareholders' stakes. In the end, Russia's Federal Securities Commission canceled the issue...