"We're going through the process of turning it around," said one Lott associate, noting that Mr. Lott's supporters had set up a "war room" to coordinate speakers, letters and Internet postings on his behalf.
People close to Trump have tried to warn him for months that Mueller is a "killer," in the words of one associate, noting that the special counsel has shown interest in the president's actions.
A study in trans-Atlantic silliness emerged last week when a member of the British Parliament, Gwyneth Dunwoody, called upon the New York Public Library to return the original Winnie-the-Pooh and four stuffed associates, noting that the toys had inspired the British author A. A. Milne to write the famous Pooh series.
In seeking to justify mass murder and align his terrorism with the Palestinian cause, Mr. bin Laden understands -- and, former associates note, even envies -- the appeal.
Focusing more on the outcome, Mr. Corzine's associates note that the skills he displayed in that situation, as well as others, are the same ones that helped him when he was co-chairman of the banking firm Goldman Sachs.
Associates noted that Mr. Hajjarian, in election speeches and in the reformist newspaper that he publishes, Sobh-e Emrooz, had been one of the most outspoken critics of those trying to shore up clerical authoritarianism.
And the game plan Mr. Clinton laid out to Mr. Davis, one of Mr. Clinton's associates noted with some amusement, is strikingly similar to the one Mr. Clinton employed to survive impeachment.
But his associates noted that Mr. Gore had long said he wanted to make an endorsement that would have an impact on the race and said he had been unimpressed with what one described as Mr. Lieberman's tepid campaign.
The qualities that his employers and associates noted when he began his newspaper career as office boy and printer's devil in Knoxville, Tenn., were the qualities he manifested throughout his life.
Several associates noted that he had been devoutly religious longer than President Bush, and even critics said his efforts -- prodding the Florida Legislature and the courts and defying much of the electorate -- were rooted in a deep-seated opposition to abortion and euthanasia rather than in political positioning.
He collected cars, but never learned to drive and though he regularly used complicated sound and recording equipment for his broadcasts, associates noted that he was afraid to use the telephone for fear he would be electrocuted!
