Word: controller
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Gore may be Washington's best known control freak, but when it comes to minutiae, he has nothing on Bob Graham, who these days appears on nearly everyone's short list of possible Gore running mates. The Florida Senator has been filling notebook after notebook--close to four thousand of them to date, color coded by season. He has kept a running account of his every waking moment for the past 23 years--14 in the Senate, eight in the Governor's mansion, even his days in the state legislature. Graham writes down every meal, every meeting, every person...
...Phil, a manic-depressive, killed himself. Bob Graham was 27 at the time. "Phil's legend was both inspiring and intimidating," says a person who knows Graham well and asks to remain anonymous. "After you see your brother commit suicide, one of the things you seek is control. No wild behavior, no profanity, no risk, loudness or recklessness of the kind Phil exhibited. Be self-disciplined. A form of it is that notebook...
...York Senate race. In an appeal for money, Rick Lazio sent out these words, "Hillary Clinton and her husband have embarrassed our country and disgraced their powerful posts." He then zeroed in on the mother lode of what bugs some people about her. "She covets power and control and thinks she should be dictating how other people run their lives...
...People believe that if we license barbers and people who paint your toenails, there must be someone who licenses people who control something as important as adoption," says William Pierce, founding president of the National Council for Adoption. In fact, even states that outlaw or regulate facilitators find it is extremely difficult to enforce the rules, Pierce says. "It's easy money," says Jeanne Carroll, who claims she lost $15,500 to Furlow. "You're not dealing with selling a car. You're dealing with people's emotions...
...Jerusalem may be the most intractable issue of all: Barak is under mounting pressure at home to avoid returning an inch of the Holy City to Arab sovereignty, while Arafat will be branded a sellout if he settles for anything less than Palestinian control over that part of the city they call Al Quds captured by Israel in 1967. Both sides' recalcitrance is driven by the religious passions at the very heart of their national identities - passions which militate against seeing the other side's point of view, which, after all, is the very essence of negotiation...