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...already a fixture in Democratic politics in Massachusetts," says Jonathan H. Alter '78, who also worked in Di Cara's campaign. "He knew everybody and was taken seriously as a political operative...
...Mark was one of those people in terms ofschoolwork who was obviously extremely bright buttended to put other kinds of things beforeschoolwork," Alter says. "A grind he wasn...
...take the confidence a typicalundergraduate has, and you pitch it up even moreto a truly high level of self-confidence, that wasMark," Alter says. "But it was leavened with asense of humor and the ability to not take himselftoo seriously...
...Meyers: "He's the place where all things come together. He is the one person, more than ((chief of staff)) Mack McLarty or ((presidential counselor David)) Gergen, who doesn't lose the forest for the trees." Although Clinton does not see Stephanopoulos as a peer -- "he's not an alter ego," cautions another aide -- Meyers maintains that Clinton "trusts him more than anyone else...
...former is the death in 1846 of Sir John Franklin and all the members of his British navy Arctic expedition, sent to find the Northwest Passage. Vollmann relates that event to a glum romance in present time between one of the author's fictional alter egos, whom he calls Captain Subzero, and a young, deaf Inuit woman named Reepah. Vollmann insists at length that Subzero, an & Arctic tourist who, as Vollmann himself did, makes a two-week trek to the north magnetic pole, is a modern counterpart of Franklin. Further and sillier, he imagines that Reepah bears some resemblance...