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Some of the interns are also good ballplayers. These select few command high stipends from willing Intern Coordinators who know prestige in D.C. is a function of softball records. With this in mind, they comb through thousands of resumes, basing their choices on recommendations from local coaches...
Such scenes are taking place all over America today, as other foreign scouting parties comb the highways and byways on the lookout for profitable finds. The searchers are Japanese and British, Canadian and South Korean, West German and Swiss, and all of them have one thought in mind: Buy! Buy! Buy! They are in search not only of factories but also of skyscrapers, shopping malls, farms and forest land, ski resorts and vineyards, refineries and mineral deposits. They have already bought some of the biggest and best-known corporations in the U.S., and their appetite appears to be gargantuan...
White has helped engineer a fresh approach to TIME's coverage of stories that require intensive reporting and analysis: deploying teams of correspondents with special expertise, then giving them plenty of time to comb through the complexities of their subject. This week's glimpse into the volatile inner cities was just such a project. White's team consisted of New York-based Correspondent Thomas McCarroll, who provided a gripping profile of a black family in Newark; Los Angeles Correspondent Jon D. Hull, who described a harrowing murder committed by a youth-gang member in Los Angeles; and Washington Correspondent Anne...
...Jackson climbed out of bed, pulled his dark pinstripe trousers up over his knee-high blue socks. He ran a wide comb through his hair. At 45 he has become puffy around the neck and middle. But his tall, erect frame and penetrating gaze are still imposing. His zeal for credibility includes wearing no jewelry or flashy clothes. "People want authenticity," he said. "I'm authentic...
...senior, North was not voted "most likely to succeed," but "most courteous" and "nicest looking." He is remembered by some as being perpetually well-groomed, even fastidious, never going anywhere without a comb in his pocket. "When Larry walked into the room, you knew it," recalls Thomas Gibbons, his former English teacher. "He had an air of self- confidence...