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Ever since that time, the Bush team has insisted that what happened was more good luck than hard work, that the party came to him. "This is the closest thing the party has ever had to a genuine draft," Rove told TIME. Added Hughes: "We returned a lot more phone calls than we made." All true: Bush may not be quick to create opportunities, but he is quick not to miss them. "Nothing in politics just happens," says veteran consultant Scott Reed. "What they have done is nothing short of awesome...
...Casino Royale and Our Man Flint. While soaking in Epsom salts that evening, he started spouting randy Brit-speak to his wife Robin Ruzan in what he calls "that well-traveled, jet-setty Englishman voice." She suggested he write up the character. Within three weeks there was a first-draft screenplay. A toothy icon was born...
...name of Finnish President Ahtisaari as Chernomyrdin's likely partner. And as everyone stood to leave, Gore told Chernomyrdin that there was something else he should have. He handed the Russian a manila envelope containing a reminder of the most fundamental reason why both countries needed to succeed--a draft of a yet unreleased State Department report, prepared overnight, laying out the extent of the ethnic cleansing that was taking place in Kosovo...
...course, three years after Ali defended the championship, there came the public vilification for his refusal to join the Army during the Vietnam War--"I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong"--one of the more telling remarks of the era. The government prosecuted him for draft dodging, and the boxing commissions took away his license. He was idle for 3 1/2 years at the peak of his career. In 1971 the Supreme Court ruled that the government had acted improperly. But Ali bore the commissions no ill will. There were no lawsuits to get his title back...
...Quarterback Matt Rader threw for 260 yards and two touchdowns, and tailback Jim Finn--the last player taken in the 1999 NFL Draft--ran for 106 yards and three scores...