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...takes with the force of his own personality." A 1997 study by the University of North Carolina ranked the powers of the office 49th out of the 50 governorships--which makes Texas "a perfectly good training ground for the [weak] Executive power of the presidency," says Bruce Buchanan, professor of government at the University of Texas. As with the President, the Governor's success depends on his use of the bully pulpit and his relationships with legislators. "Bush recognized that," says Laney, "so he wanted to work with us from...
...Bruce Chatwin always seemed almost too good to be true: an "alarmingly handsome" golden boy who became a director of Sotheby's at 25, quit to go to Patagonia and came back with what the blurbists now call "the most influential travel book in the English language." In his address book Jackie Onassis sat next to an oryx herder, and in his prose he'd characteristically present himself talking to a priest while the man "knifed out the eye of a young guanaco...
...least of the triumphs of Nicholas Shakespeare's unimprovable (and unstoppably readable) Bruce Chatwin (Doubleday; 618 pages; $35) is that it looks unflinchingly at the vanities, lies and manipulations of a "heroically selfish" man and yet somehow makes him plausibly sympathetic. To understand is to forgive, they say in France, and by poring through the unpublished notebooks of both Chatwin and his friends, by talking to seemingly everyone who knew him and by training his novelist's urbanity on all this, Shakespeare shows how the dandified collector of odd treasures could honestly mooch off duchesses while maintaining that one should...
...expecting worse--Dan and Bruce were a little kind," he said. "Every time I come off stage, I ask myself, 'Why am I not doing this all the time...
...been on the same spot, 1 Bow Street, for several decades and even the oldest regulars do not know when it first opened its doors. Several claimed that Bruce Springsteen had his 1969 Boston premier in the bar, performing in the corner where the jukebox now stands...