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...city hall, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, 63, wants visitors to know that he is not your average politician--or a politician at all. Bloomberg, you see, doesn't really have an office. Instead, he sits alongside much of his staff in the middle of what is known as the bullpen, a large, former public meeting room now packed with corporate cubicles like a Wall Street trading floor. "Walls are barriers, and my job is to remove them," says the billionaire businessman who made his fortune by building his namesake financial-data-and-media empire. "I wasn't hired to do well...
Arms-control Adviser Paul Nitze is the most intriguing member of the summit bullpen. Nitze, 78, a white-haired, spry member of the old postwar foreign policy establishment, has been dubbed "the Silver Fox" for his wily bureaucratic skills. If anyone can find a way to bridge the chasm between the U.S. and the Soviet arms proposals, it is Nitze. The arms-control veteran, however, has been tagged by many Reaganauts as an accommodationist for his willingness to work out a deal...
Madick carried a no-hitter into the tenth, until she allowed back-to-back singles with one out. Protecting the slimmest of leads, Harvard coach Jenny Allard lifted Madick and went to the bullpen for the closer...
With a hot Saturday sun playing the role of spotlight, an eager baseball audience was treated to the debut of The Steffan Wilson Show in the newly renovated bullpen of O’Donnell Field...
...bullpen picture, while clarified some thanks to this weekend, still remains admittedly complicated...