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...other great skills include an extraordinary ability to take complex issues and present them simply, and the capacity in cross-examination to go in whichever direction the witness requires. Jeff Blattner, a Deputy Assistant Attorney General who worked with him on the Microsoft case, calls Boies' ability to improvise in the courtroom "pure jazz." During that trial, when a frustrated Microsoft witness complained that Boies was ambushing him with trick questions, Boies actually promised to raise his hand before he asked another one. And there you see it in the trial transcript, five questions later, following a seemingly innocuous query...
...leak out last week-notably in an article in New Scientist magazine based apparently on advance copies of Gallo's papers-a scientific team in Paris rushed to call attention to their own work on an AIDS virus. A Nobel Prize was possibly at stake, and Epidemiologist William Blattner of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) observed: "People are racing to grab the brass ring on this disease...
...reportedly found signs of the virus in 80% to 90% of blood samples from AIDS patients. Both research groups affirm that the bugs they have found closely resemble the cancer-causing virus discovered by Gallo four years ago. The two groups suspect they have found the same virus. Notes Blattner: "The two labs are independent, but have been collaborating...
...Blattner bested both Crimson entries, Paco Canales and Peter Tetlow, to win the 500 in a blistering 4:42. Canales swam a fine 4:44 and Tetlow swam his season best time...
...with his best swimmers in each event to counter the Elis attack, with a now-ailing Hess Yntema in the line-up last week at Penn, the Crimson 400 medley relay has gone 3:34 Yntema has also swum a 1:44 in the 200 free to match Blattner and his bettered Spohn's butterfly record...