Word: secretiveness
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...needs that much time to rehearse "we're projecting a Democratic win in Massachusetts." The real reason is that not to release early violates the basic raison d'être of journalists, who live for those rare and ego-inflating moments when you're the one in on the secret and you decide when to let everyone know. And it's going to take a lot more than Florida to wean reporters off that...
...throw and run with a gliding grace, and when he could no longer do those things he...well, he looked great in a suit. But as Richard Ben Cramer establishes in his absolutely persuasive DiMaggio: The Hero's Life (Simon & Schuster; 546 pages; $28), Joe D. had a secret. He knew the power of silence. The less he gave, standing remote and noble and regally aloof, the more the world took it as evidence of dignity...
...trip to the North Korean capital, a delegation of pols he led suggested a way out of the diplomatic brier patch: Let Japan "discover" its people in a third country, say, Thailand, allowing North Korea to sidestep blame. The idea has some appeal, but only while secret. "If negotiations reach a deadlock in the future, North Korea might have thought about considering this plan," says Shigeru Yokota, whose daughter disappeared, at age 13, in 1977. "Now that would be difficult...
...past - panting, bedraggled, heading toward the finish of the New York Marathon. They looked awful - basket cases pounding along in their underwear. They looked like Jimmy Carter that time he marathoned himself to a frazzle in the Catoctin Mountains near Camp David and had to be helped off by Secret Service agents...
...knowledge that what happens in presidential campaigns almost never has the slightest bearing on the history that occurs thereafter. Franklin Roosevelt, for example, campaigned in 1940 on the promise that America would not get involved in the European war. Nixon told campaign audiences in 1968 that he had a secret plan for getting out of Vietnam. George Bush Senior went across the American landscape shouting "READ MY LIPS, NO NEW TAXES." Henry Ford said, "All history is more or less bunk." All campaign promises are more or less bunk. Every presidential campaign is noisy and ruinously expensive piffle...