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...hours a week protecting the Villages, policing the streets and working inside the arenas. He has spent $800,000 on new equipment, including submachine guns with silencers and shoulder-held rifles for the department's crack SWAT (special weapons and tactics) team. One new acquisition: "Felix," a radio-directed robot capable of chugging up to suspicious objects and investigating them at a safe distance from people...
Calkins moved into law with a shining record: at Harvard Law School he was elected president of the prestigious Harvard Law Review, and later served clerkships with Chief Justices Learned Hand and Felix Frankfurter. Now 60, he remains a highly regarded tax and corporate lawyer, and while less active with liberal causes than he was 15 years ago, his concerns continue to reflect a deep-seated desire for social justice...
...street, at the Brattle Inn, presided over by two maiden sisters, bright law students such as Jim Rowe and Ed Rhetts (who went on to distinguished careers in the Roosevelt administration) and David Riesman, winding up their third year at the Harvard Law School under the tutelage of Felix Frankfurter, would argue cases over lunch in the ladylike atmosphere of the inn's dining room David Riesman, whom I remember as the intellectual pet and buzzing fadfly of his more worldly classmates, would have a hundred ideas in one lunchtime, a good many falling flat but a few brilliant...
...Felix Sassano, a Connecticut obstetrician, claims Flight Simulator has nearly cured him of his fear of flying. Retired Navy Officer John Chartier says that the 30 hours he logs every week are preparing him for upcoming flying lessons...
...same time, investment banking is losing its old, genteel overtones of Ivy League colleges and gentlemen's social clubs. Companies have got more fickle and change bankers with greater frequency. Says Felix Rohatyn of Lazard Freres, who built his reputation as a deal-maker during the 1960s: "Relationships are no longer as important as individual transactions. There is simply not the amount of long-term trust between clients and their investment bankers that there once...