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...designed to supply the Saudi armed forces with jet fuel in case some invader happens to occupy Saudi refineries. Earlier this month, he warned bureaucrats that they faced dismissal if they didn't shape up, a far cry from the glory days when every graduate was assured a government desk and a paycheck, work or no work. The 30,000-strong royal family weren't spared the belt-tightening: no more ignoring telephone and utility bills, he decreed, or treating the national carrier Saudia like a private airline...
...typical daydreams might consist of the glorious first apartment after the consulting bonus comes in or sitting behind a mahogany desk in a law office. But for a half-hour, inside a gym on a machine that mimics a rocking chair, I let myself engage in fantasy, my mind in Salt Lake City, envisioning my tough downhill race and my spot on the medal stand. I remember, now, why staring out the window in third-grade used to be so much fun. And I also understand why I’ve been so enchanted by spirit of the winter games...
Favorite place to study: My desk or the very, very bottom corner of Widener—no light, hardly any books. Nobody walks through...
Favorite place to study: Must be the room—look at all that desk space...
Atop a 100-year-old mahogany table under the sparkling gold dome of the State House, Byrnes took full advantage of gubernatorial keycard access. After the fact, the two girls began rifling through the legislation on Weld’s desk. Byrnes sent them back to his apartment, fell asleep on the State House lawn for an hour and then wrote a speech in 30 minutes that Weld delivered in front of current Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. “It was less of an incident than a way of life,” Byrnes says of the jaunt...