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MIDWAY THROUGH SAM GWYNNE'S VARIED CAREER -- French teacher, international banker, prizewinning correspondent -- he and his wife Katie became temporary workers: royalties from Sam's 1986 book, Selling Money, had run out, and they , needed some income while looking for permanent employment. Gwynne worked briefly as a "production assistant" on a TV commercial (his job: raking and reraking sand on a beach to smooth it out after strollers had walked by) and as a secretary at Southern California Gas Co. Sam vividly remembers the unnerving insecurity that helped inspire this week's stories on temporary workers: "No health insurance...
...recall, the first year I got three C's and a D," said Michael D. Robinson '71, a banker in New York City who served as president of Phillips Brooks House as an undergraduate. "I was Group II thereafter; an A, two B's and a C was pretty typical...
...core of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences were not 24-year-old TFs but professors in their 50s or 60s, and their ideas were not that radical," said Robinson, the New York banker. "They were a lot more like Nathan Pusey than they would like to believe...
...first episode works nicely against TV type. The story deals with two black brothers, but there is no jivey street talk. The younger (Larry Fishburne) is a policeman, but we never see him draw a gun. The elder (Carl Lumbly) is an uptight banker, the sort of Republican stick-in-the-mud who gets lampooned on TV sitcoms. When the banker is killed in a mugging, the cop must grapple with a range of emotions: a craving for revenge; an emerging sense of responsibility for his brother's family; even (suggested ever so delicately) + romantic stirrings for his sister...
...Carlyle Group scored its biggest political coup last week, when it signed James Baker as a partner. Baker is no banker, but as a former Secretary of State and George Bush's veteran campaign handler, his Washington and worldwide connections are unsurpassed. The same is true of the firm's chairman, Frank Carlucci, a former diplomat who was Ronald Reagan's Defense Secretary. When teamed with managing director Richard Darman, who as Bush's former Budget Director brings financial as well as political expertise, the group seems like a Republican Administration in exile. And its members hope to lure...