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...balding, is bouncing around a Microsoft conference room with the spirit of the Harvard football-team manager he once was. "Bill lived down the hall from me at Harvard sophomore year," he says. "He'd play poker until 6 in the morning, then I'd run into him at breakfast and discuss applied mathematics." They took graduate-level math and economics courses together, but Gates had an odd approach toward his classes: he would skip the lectures of those he was taking and audit the lectures of those he wasn't, then spend the period before each exam cramming...
After the President's election, Trie became a Democratic fund raiser and by 1995 was working with Huang, at that point a go-go money-maker for the Democratic National Committee, to boost the party's appeal among Asian-American donors. In January, Trie attended a D.N.C. finance-board breakfast at Washington's Hay Adams hotel, where party chairman Don Fowler asked the party's top 110 fund raisers to each raise $350,000 by Election Day. Rainmakers from Texas and Massachusetts balked at Fowler's demand, calling the pace unrealistic. But not Trie...
...literary life. Random House advanced him $2.5 million to write a book about the Clinton White House, but Morris forgot to tell the President about the contract; thus in effect he was paid to eavesdrop on the Oval Office, not unlike Richard Nixon. He was rewarded with a breakfast at the New Yorker magazine, where journalists, ad salespeople and academicians convened to certify his good fortune, popularity, newsworthiness, bankability, celebrity, whatever...
...Along with Shirlene Devougas, Early cares for eight infants in one of the center's day-care programs, and three of their charges show up before 7, so Early has to be ready for them. By 8:30 all the babies are present, and Early and Devougas give them breakfast. "Everybody wants to be fed at the same time," says Early with a laugh. The room is clean and bright, painted in a pleasant combination of green and white. Some infants crawl around a blue carpet, where they play with blocks, stacking toys, a plastic mirror on wheels...
Enter Cruella, branch manager of Pure Joy Toy, wearing a gray cashmere business suit accessorized with a tasteful black riding crop. "Good news, children!" she announces in a voice that lets you know she's had her usual breakfast of boiled bunnies and Dalmatian pups. "Thanks to the upsurge of consumer confidence this Christmas season, I'm able to offer you unlimited forced overtime right through Christmas Eve! And to make it easier for you to focus on the task at hand, all exits and rest rooms will be locked for the duration!" As she leaves, we hear locks clanking...