Al From doesn't look happy to be back in power. Bill Clinton's chief domestic policy planner for the transition appears to be under siege: the austere Little Rock office that From shares with two assistants is strewn with unsolicited faxes, dotted with little yellow Post-it notes and littered with long-forgotten telephone messages stamped URGENT. From endures surprise visits from special-interest pleaders, insinuating state party officials and reconnoitering reporters. After politely thanking another briefcase-toting visitor for the 75-page list of "action items," From sighs. "This," he says wearily, "is my life."
Yet From is enjoying a vindication of a kind. During the...
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