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...make a buck off this thing?" Max, 52, asked as he thumbed through journals such as Presidential Studies Quarterly, The American Scholar and Political Science Quarterly while researching the appropriate point spread. Max, who has run a small book for 20 years to supplement his income from various odd jobs, takes wagers on ponies, ball games and everything else, including "two rats running across the street." He's booked local elections in the past but decided to try the big leagues this time, thanks in part to the money-grubbing example set by the candidates. "These guys are raising millions...
...First, just two days before the Reform party convention opens Thursday in Long Beach, some procedural Rashomonics between the party's Perot and Buchanan wings turned into a shoving match that had to be broken up by police. Then the 35-odd Perotistas stormed out of the hotel, went down the street to another one and declared themselves the one true Reform party...
This was especially true when it came to wooing the Evangelicals. It seemed odd to give W. that portfolio, the reformed playboy. But it worked. W. had gone through his own conversion by this time and could speak the language of the faithful heart fluently, at least compared with Dad. He met with the important ministers and Evangelical leaders, talking about the family's faith, even contributing a book explaining the father's spiritual journey. It was as though a light had gone on in W.'s head, not just about how vital the Christian vote was for his father...
...days at Camp David took on an odd life of their own. Dozens of golf carts zipped from cabin to cabin at the northern Maryland presidential retreat, with Israeli and Palestinian officials scrunched in them haggling with one another and dodging chipmunks darting across their paths. There were negotiations across tables, but just as much work got done over pinball machines at Hickory Lodge. With talks held practically round the clock, diplomats began to mark time by hours instead of days. And with clouds dumping rain almost every day, the Middle East guests--accustomed to dryer climates--complained that they...
Even the summit's death seemed odd. It came at 2:30 a.m. on Tuesday. Saeb Erakat, a top aide to Yasser Arafat, walked into the living room of Aspen Lodge, where Bill Clinton, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and National Security Adviser Sandy Berger sat, and read them a letter from the Palestinian leader. Arafat saw no use continuing talks on an agreement to end 52 years of conflict with Israel. Sovereignty over Jerusalem and its holy sites was the stumbling block. "The problem is they both want the same thing," Albright said later in an interview with TIME...