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...caper took a month to plan, and just 64 minutes to execute. On Friday, May 13 -- a date chosen in a spirit of mischief -- an $18,000-a-year clerk at First National Bank of Chicago set in motion a simple scheme that nearly bilked his employer out of $68.7 million. Aided by a gang of accomplices and his knowledge of a few secret codes, Gabriel Taylor, 27, electronically transferred the money from accounts belonging to Merrill Lynch, United Airlines and Brown-Forman distillers to accounts that some of the conspirators had set up under assumed names at two banks...
...beer- drinking goat whose pen abuts the shaded porch. A boozer of 14 years' standing, Clay Henry picks up an opened can or bottle in his mouth and downs the contents in seconds. "He has drunk as much as 24 cans in a single day," says Linda Garcia, a clerk at the post. CLAY HENRY FOR MAYOR, reads a sign on the fridge that holds the beer...
Garrity postponed, however, a ruling on the crucial item of this spring's jury verdict--the $75,000 in damages the jury assessed against the University. A clerk said Garrity will make a decision on appropriateness of the award some time this month...
...Misha would work right alongside us," recalls Carole Fuller, a procurement clerk-typist for the Army who late in life discovered a passion for chamber music and became a volunteer for the orchestra. "We'd work until 2 or 3 or 4 in the morning sending out tickets. Sometimes Misha got so tired he'd fall asleep with his head on a desk...
Campaign Manager Susan Estrich, 35, is likely to be part of any Administration. A former Harvard Law Review president and Supreme Court clerk who is on leave as a professor at the law school, Estrich took over the campaign during the turmoil after John Sasso's resignation. Another 35-year- old Harvard Law School professor, Christopher Edley, has done an outstanding job as the campaign's issues director. The top-ranking black on the Governor's team, Edley could wind up as chief domestic-policy adviser. Standing in the wings is Sasso, the mastermind of the campaign, who left after...