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...away with being direct, but people like him for it. "Many people in the State Department are quietly subversive about policies they don't like but obsequious to their elders and betters," says a longtime colleague. But Eagleburger has swum against that stream: never talking out of school, but glad to raise his voice within...
...Especially during a high-stakes election campaign, a politician on top of his game pursues his own agenda. Old grudges are stowed. Interviews are perceived as opportunities. A case is made as inconvenient questions are ignored. Ask about marital infidelity, for example, and one expects to hear "I'm glad you asked about adultery. It reminds me of my health-care proposals." From Bush, though, it was mostly familiar stuff: a dose of Congress bashing and a litany of old bromides, platitudes and topic sentences devoid of the specificity that undergirds Bill Clinton's appeal...
...That is a crumpled-up draft notice in my pocket and I am glad...
Overheard in the media work area while CNN's marathon coverage blared four women standing in front of Madison Square Garden singing a horrendously discordant version of "If I had a Hammer." "I'm glad I'm in print," one reporter said...
...move quickly if necessary, taking just two days to pass a bill calling for a 35-day cooling-off period and a list of government-approved arbitrators to settle the conflict. Freight railroads restored full service by the end of last week. "I'm sure that members are glad to see that we're getting back to work," said David Turner, chairman of Local 612 of the machinists union, in Lincoln, Neb. "But the only drawback is that it's not resolved...