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...lights of network cameras, while talking privately to Dole on a cell phone. Kemp vaulted into the headlines as Dole's vice presidential pick Friday morning when he started telling reporters he'd gladly serve, if asked: "Quarterbacks are always ready," he growled. By noon, CNN was reporting that high-level Dole sources had put the question to Kemp, as a prelude to the big phone call from the candidate. The drum-roll peaks Saturday at noon, when Dole and his new partner meet the press in Russell, Kansas. Could Kemp put Dole over the top? The perky former quarterback...
EREZ CHECKPOINT, Gaza Strip: The Likud opened the path to negotiations with Palestinians Tuesday with the meeting between Foreign Minister David Levy and Yasser Arafat. It is the first time a high-level official from Benjamin Netanyahu's newly-elected government has met with the man long branded a terrorist by the Likud. "The importance of this meeting is that it took place," reports TIME's Eric Silver. "They broke the ice. It was successful in that they both shook hands warmly and seemed to have a good rapport." After Tuesday's meeting, Silver says, the Likud will have...
...identification with Esther is curious. Some parallels are obvious. Esther revels in her proximity to the King. She is one of the shrewdest and most political women in the Bible. But what has Elizabeth Dole risked compared with Esther? What has this two-time Cabinet Secretary, this former high-level White House aide, this $200,000-a-year president of the American Red Cross, this potential First Lady, sacrificed in her own life...
Much of what has kept Lindsey at Clinton's side over the past 28 years is an inner confidence that comes from his family's Midwestern Presbyterianism--"a sense of predestination," as White House senior aide Mack McLarty once put it. Lindsey is often the one in high-level meetings who speaks only if he has to. That sense of security will come in handy as he adjusts to a role reversal--watching the President defend him instead of the other way around...
While observers universally praise the personal commitment of the president, some say his time could be better spent with more high-level tasks...