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Ending a ten-month search, President Neil L. Rudenstine will name former Detroit News editor Robert H. Giles curator of Harvard's Nieman Foundation today, according to a University source close to the search process...
Rounding out the message team are Hughes and Rove. At campaign headquarters in Austin, an industrious policy shop churns out ideas that fit into the compassionate conservative rubric. Rove then picks the optimal political moment to unveil them. In a process Rove describes as "political heuristics," most people don't retain the details of Bush's proposals, but they come away with a positive feeling about Bush that makes them more inclined to vote for him. "They get a sense of his values, of what kind of a person he is," says Rove...
...important question for the defendants is how much money they will have to put up during the appeals process. Typically, the loser must post the full amount of the award while the case is under appeal. The Florida legislature passed a law this year capping the size of the appeal bond that each tobacco company must post at $100 million--a law the plaintiffs are challenging. If the cap is removed, the tobacco companies could conceivably be forced to file for bankruptcy, which would disrupt this case as well as the $209 billion settlement with the states, part of which...
...Street dismissed the $145 billion setback as if it were a parking ticket. Tobacco stocks were off marginally, indicating that investors had already priced the decision into the shares. And industry analysts remain bullish. "The scale of the verdict speaks to the unconstitutionality and the absurdity of the whole process," says David Adelman of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter...
...someone so central to the process, Ross could not be more self-effacing. Of the three primary U.S. negotiators of the post-cold war era--the other two are George Mitchell, who helped midwife the Northern Irish peace, and Richard Holbrooke, the brash, Balkan knucklebuster and current U.N. Ambassador--Ross is far and away the most modest. While Holbrooke is known for his deft use of sycophancy and insinuation--key tools of diplomacy when used properly--Ross uses a different method. "Dennis makes up for that lack of flattery and manipulation through trust and discretion," says a former confidant...