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...other hand, is the United States' hand-picked choice, and resentment of that fact will undoubtedly hinder the diplomat's relations with some nations. "If somebody has to carry this burden," Michaels says, "he's probably the only one who can pull it off. He's a team builder and a bureaucrat, but the question is, Does he have vision?" His first order of business as secretary general will be stabilizing UN finances. One immediate help would be to convince the U.S. to pay more than $1 billion in back dues. His ability to collect will depend convincing critics...
...real job of the affable Berger is to be Mr. Inside, the daily consensus builder brokering honestly among competing interests from State, Defense, the intelligence community, the NSC staff. He'll be there to get the job done. This rumpled trade lawyer lacks the intellectual heft of Lake but is a better bureaucratic synthesizer, a noted detail man, and he is well liked by just about everyone in the Administration...
...Albright and her teammates. Clinton must co-opt a skeptical Congress if he is ever to develop the national consensus essential to almost any foreign venture or protect the policymaking bureaucracy from the budget hawks. Cohen is highly regarded on both sides of the aisle as a bridge builder who can meld judicious compromises on contentious issues. A sure sign of his appeal is the fact that Republican John Warner praises him for holding the line against cuts while Democrat Sam Nunn lauds him for his fiscal discipline...
...many lay people would have recognized the name, since relatively few ordinary citizens read the publications of the funeral industry--with their ads for Eterna-Cribs, Frigid Fluid body bags, Velvetone Arterial solution and Hydrol Tissue Builder--in which Loewen and its competitors had long been subjects of debate. O'Keefe, however, knew Loewen and knew full well it was no mere partner. "That was a lie and a subterfuge," he says. When Loewen went on to buy another nearby funeral home and in the process intruded on a long-standing contract between that home and O'Keefe, O'Keefe...
When the ball sailed into the back of the net, bringing the 1996 season to a bitter close, the real story was told on the faces of the players. For everyone, it was simply a battle--a character builder...