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...President Reagan came up here when Howard Baker was leader, and Howard showed him the view," says Dole, sweeping aside the curtains behind his desk and revealing through repairmen's scaffolding the marbled city below with its great avenues running toward the White House. "'Mr. President, this is the best view in town,' Howard said. The President looked at him and answered, 'No, Howard, it is the second-best view...
...hard-boiled novels (Get Shorty, Rum Punch and his latest, The Hot Kid) are beloved by readers and Hollywood alike: 17 of his 40 books have been made into movies. Even at 79, Elmore Leonard is back at his desk every morning, scrawling in longhand--no computers, please--his daily quota of pitch-perfect dialogue. He spoke to TIME's Philip Elmer-DeWitt from his home outside Detroit...
...Murstein ’05 lost a flip-flop, tennis shoe, and laptop. He thought he was losing his mind. The footwear turned up on top of a vending machine and in the men’s bathroom. His computer appeared on his Greenough floormate’s desk. In a single week, Murstein’s lock was jammed with plastic five times, including the night before an Ec10 hourly when he waited until 7:15 a.m. to get back into his room...
During the summer, Wheeler worked a desk job as an intern at a corporation, and it “didn’t feel that fulfilling...
...phone was ringing constantly at the desk of James R. Houghton ’58, senior fellow of the Corporation, as news of Summers’ remarks first emerged, recalled an employee in Houghton’s office who refused to give his name. Harvard insiders were surely curious to gauge Houghton’s reaction to the faculty uproar, which was then only beginning to gain momentum. Would he lead the Corporation in defense of the besieged president...