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...streets. He has picked up some wisdom along the way as well as countless intriguing stories. Over the years, he claims to have accepted fares from Harvard notables: Neil Rudenstine, Alan Dershowitz, Henry Louis "Skip" Gates and Stephen Jay Gould, and real-world gurus like George Will, a columnist for Newsweek. Carlos describes Rudenstine as "very humble, very down to earth," and Gates as "a real nice, fun guy, a Democrat." He recalls driving Gould to Logan airport, and having "a great conversation about creation versus evolution science...
...members bid for underwriting business, although today they do so from a four-story-high, block-square trading room in London. These underwriters form syndicates that are in turn backed by Names--investors who range from British notable Camilla Parker Bowles to U.S. business tycoons like Lufkin and Schwab, columnist Robert Novak, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer and smaller fry like Evans. Names are required to risk their entire personal wealth when they back Lloyd's policies in exchange for the right to a slice of underwriting profits. Atop the whole shebang sits the Council of Lloyd's, a ruling...
...January 1974 the columnist Joseph Alsop declared, "I have begun to think that the '70s are the very worst years since the history of life began on earth..." The decade seemed to be a convergence of ghastly fashions (ultrasuedes, double-knit bellbottoms and medallions, blow-dry haircuts), exotic self-esteem indulgences (est, Gestalt, bioenergetics, Arica, Reichian therapy, Krishna consciousness) and assorted bad ideas (disco, Erich von Daniken's cosmology) with such larger historical dysfunctions as double-digit inflation, riots on the gas lines, Watergate and the losing of the Vietnam...
...What the ultimate fallout will be is still unclear; there's talk of a civil suit or federal action. But, says TIME columnist Jack White, two people will pay dearly for this verdict. "Rudy Giuliani and Bronx district attorney Robert T. Johnson are going to catch hell for this," says White. "Johnson screwed up this case so badly he'll never be elected again." Many Diallo supporters contend that Johnson's office was ill-prepared to handle this case. Giuliani, whose presumptive campaign for the U.S. Senate could hinge on the crucial New York City vote, was on television moments...
This bodice-ripping encounter starring a Founding Father and a femme fatale may or may not be faithful to history, but it is definitely a reliable narrative device. Safire, the snappy, right-hooking political columnist for the New York Times, can always be counted on to keep his readers informed while also in a state of high expectation...