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...missed message also turns out to be the operative metaphor for the Bush-McCain rapprochement. In the two months since Bush knocked McCain out of the primaries, relations between the victor and the vanquished have been awkward and tense, with anonymous aides trading acerbic barbs in the press. By the time the two men met in the Westin William Penn hotel in Pittsburgh, Pa., last Tuesday, negotiations had been going on for so long--practically since the day McCain dropped out--that both walked into the room with set lines to deliver. Bush congratulated McCain on his tough campaign, saying...
...called on account of Rudy's. But whatever Giuliani decides--and his announcement could come this week--it won't be the alleged extramarital liaisons that hurt him. It will be the way he has handled them. New York is not prudish; for the past two years, the press has actually shown some restraint in reporting on Giuliani's private life. Hanover chose not to appear at his side when he won re-election in 1997, and she didn't show up at a city hall event for two years, but no one belabored the obvious. Giuliani stopped wearing...
...Bush kept control behind closed doors, the press conference afterward was pure McCain: unpredictable and laced with edgy humor. Though McCain endorsed Bush, the smiles were forced, and McCain's jokes occasionally misfired. Was he being serious when he agreed with a reporter that the meeting was like taking medicine? The Senator insists that he was joking, and Bush is said to believe him. The worst moment was Bush's. At an event designed to show mutual admiration, the G.O.P. nominee ducked a question about the Rev. Pat Robertson, who recently warned that McCain would be a "very dangerous" Vice...
...silence--reignited the story, adding that she had tried to patch things up after Lategano left city hall but Rudy "chose another path." Only then did the old, fierce Rudy spring back into action, using his brush-back pitches to shut down legitimate questions about Lategano. When the press aide left city hall a year ago--forced out, it was said, at Hanover's insistence--the mayor helped her land a $150,000-a-year taxpayer-subsidized job with the New York convention and visitors bureau, a job for which she was deemed "simply unqualified" by the weekly Crain...
...adviser to Governor George Pataki. "He's going, and he's going fast." Giuliani maintains that he hasn't made up his mind, and those who know him well caution that he is stubborn and mercurial enough to confound all expectations. "If the entire Republican leadership held a press conference and said, 'Rudy, you must go,' he'd be sure to stay in," says someone who has known him for 30 years. A city hall source told TIME the mayor was ready to quit last Friday--but decided not to after Hanover made an issue of Lategano. "He didn...