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Another convention bigwig is Robert E. Rubin '60, chair of the New York '92 host committee. Rubin's committee has been organizing welcoming events for the conventioneers, among them a Broadway Street party and Saturday's media greeting party in Bryant Park. Rubin, who studied economics at Harvard, is co-chair of the investment firm Goldman Sachs and a director of Harvard Management Company. He ran unsuccessfully for a seat on the Harvard Board of Overseers this spring...
Come on, Mr. Necco Bigwig. Get rid of your attitude problem. It's Valentine's Day; it's the season for romance. Have a heart! (Whoa--sorry). Oh, Chief Executive Officer, haven't you ever been in love...
After lunch, a Dorm Crew bigwig--I think it was the "Generalissimo," but it could just as easily have been the "Czar" or "Grand Poobah"--taught my crew how to wax floors. To wax correctly, one must saturate one's mop with wax and then squeeze exactly 70 percent of the wax back into the bucket. There is no other correct method...
Other leading party cadres are suffering for their sins. Gunter Schabowski, a former editor of the party newspaper Neues Deutschland, recently suffered the humiliation of being rejected for a menial job at the city's waterworks. But he may have been relatively fortunate. Another red Bonze (bigwig) was reportedly seen washing dishes at Berlin's Grand Hotel -- rather like those exiled archdukes from czarist Russia who eked out a living as waiters and doormen in post-1918 Paris...
Even retirement will pall for former Politburo members. They will have to do without the household workers and car the state had provided to each. That's enough to make a bigwig take to his sickbed, but illness could be a problem too. The number of people entitled to use the special clinics reserved for the privileged will be cut by two-thirds...