Word: pressing
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David Boies, the lawyer who won Al Gore's fight for a recount, is an awfully rumpled sort for the permanently pressed Vice President. He has a steel-trap mind but the quirks of a little kid. When I catch up with him on Friday morning--after he has cut short his Thanksgiving break, flying back to Tallahassee, Fla., from his home in New York's Westchester County ("I had two turkey lunches, but no dinner")--he runs upstairs to his room at the tiny Governor's Inn to change out of his blue suit; it's the only...
...procedure had taken place but did not tell the public because he did not feel equipped to discuss it. And anyway, he wanted to focus on the good news about Cheney's condition. But Bush communications director Karen Hughes says that at the moment he spoke to the press, Bush was not aware of the stent insertion...
...hospital says the Bush campaign had nothing to do with preparing Wasserman's first dissembling statement. And though Cheney's wife Lynne and daughter Liz were involved, Cheney's press secretary, Juleanna Glover Weiss, insists they did not at first understand that what he had suffered qualified as a heart attack. Communications director Hughes says she also did not understand until she asked the hospital's p.r. director to explain the meaning of the elevated enzyme levels. Once she realized that this signaled a mild heart attack, she says, she immediately told the hospital that the doctors should go before...
Since his angry press conference last week, Feeney has softened his tone. Legislative veterans were quick to tell him that he was not risking just his own political hide but the careers of his colleagues too. So while stressing that he is keeping all options open, Feeney's focus now is on the lawsuit before the U.S. Supreme Court. He had the legislature hire three constitutional experts, including Harvard's Charles Fried, to argue that the Florida Supreme Court unconstitutionally rewrote Florida law and usurped executive power. He has also set up a joint task force made up of eight...
They make a near perfect match, from their virtually simultaneous publication this fall to their tripping-over-each-other titles. In one corner, The Making of Kind of Blue: Miles Davis and His Masterpiece by Eric Nisenson (St. Martin's Press; 236 pages; $22.95); across the ring, Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece by Ashley Kahn (Da Capo; 223 pages...