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...started his career by solving the famous Hilbert's fifth problem as part of a team, which is quite an outstanding achievement," says colleague Raoul Bott, Graustein Professor of Mathematics. "But he's always been very interested in the undergraduates as well. His office is always full of them...
...Afterward, they scurried across the street to their lawyers' office to begin working the telephone to recruit an initial 30 employees, many of them from First Boston. Meanwhile, Buchanan promptly named a new pair of rising stars to take over the investment-banking department, James Maher, 38, and Richard Bott, 40. Says Buchanan: "Of course, it's disruptive to lose talented people. But Maher is as solid as they come, though he has never felt the need for a lot of personal visibility...
...Maher and Bott will be hard-pressed to match their predecessors' style or accomplishments. In boardrooms from Pittsburgh to Palm Beach, the two men seemed an unlikely pair. Perella, a lanky 6 ft. 6 in., with an affable demeanor, towers over the rounder, more combative Wasserstein. But since the duo began building First Boston's mergers department in the mid-1970s, they have brought their firm into some of the most famous and infamous deals of the decade. In one case, the team was all too effective in helping Texaco beat rival Pennzoil in a battle to acquire Getty...
...Bott argued that "Spenser should remain on the air because it employs Boston actors," and Murphy said the show was one of the only ones she let her children watch because "it's a quality show in the way they handle controversial subject matter. When Spenser kills someone he feels regret, and he hates to resort to violence. It's something my children can learn from, unlike Miami Vice, which seems to glorify violence," she said...
...really love to get a part," reiterated Bott. "Maybe this will be my big break...