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...Paris as a pit stop. She finds little use for such captain-of-industry trappings. After consolidating power, the wealthy widow sold off the limousines and the private jet and dispensed with other perks. While Reg was a master of complex financing, Loida keeps a chalkboard near her desk, on which she writes down the names of individual managers along with their assigned tasks, erasing each entry as the job is completed. Says a Beatrice executive: "I can't imagine Reginald Lewis doing that...
...Officially, Bill Moyers is only one of seven White House special assistants to the President. In practice, he is Johnson's No. 1 aide...'Of every ten ideas that cross L.B.J.'s desk,' says a colleague, 'five must be Bill's.' He is the editor who hands out assignments to several speechwriters and gives their effort the penultimate polish (Lyndon, naturally, has the final say)...Perhaps the greatest measure of the President's faith in his judgment was the role he played when Lyndon Johnson underwent surgery...Somebody had to be empowered to decide whether to transfer the...presidency...
Gregory Nagy, Jones professor of classical Greek literature, check his e-mail hourly. He's also been known to e-mail his wife when they are both at home. She can receive it and read it without leaving her desk--they have separate his-and-her e-mail lines...
According to the victim, who asked to remain anonymous, he was sitting at his desk in the common room facing Mass. Ave. when the thieves knocked on the window next to him. His roommates were asleep in the bedrooms...
...suspects ordered the victim to sit down and turn around, so he crouched on the floor behind the corner of a desk, facing away from them. When he stood up, they were gone, he said...