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Working for Clinton has helped seal Currie's place in the Democratic firmament--she moves easily through the most sophisticated worlds, and is friendly with Vernon Jordan and donor Walter Kaye (who recommended Lewinsky for the internship). But, as she once told the Chicago Tribune, "I didn't think the hours would be so long." She works 12 hours a day six days a week--and sometimes on Sundays, as she did Jan. 18, when Clinton reportedly called her in and walked her through his version of the Lewinsky affair. As the fallout from that day continues, unwanted opportunities...
...amazing what an image makeover--plus a very unpopular opponent--can do for a politician's fortunes. At age 63, Cardenas was back in the firmament last week as he and his Party of the Democratic Revolution (P.R.D.) wrested the Mexico City mayor's office from the P.R.I. by a vote of 47% to 26%, with the right-wing National Action Party polling 16%. Now Cardenas is once more being held up as the man who, in the presidential vote of 2000, can end the P.R.I.'s reign as the world's longest-ruling political party...
Stars keep falling out of the firmament at Fidelity Investments, the Boston-based mutual-fund giant. Last week Brian Posner, the highly regarded manager of the popular Equity Income II Fund, left to join E.M. Warburg Pincus and Co., a much smaller New York house. Posner's departure is troubling for Fidelity because he was the post-cowboy model the firm has been promoting to restore confidence among investors; each of Fidelity's 15 biggest funds was trailing the S&P 500 at the end of November. Posner, 35, has been steady and successful since he took over the Equity...
...then there's the humble pocket production, the play created by a few extremely devoted students, often with a single person acting as the driving force behind its conception and execution. Such labors of love are occasionally bright stars in the local firmament--one thinks of Winsome Brown '95 as Oscar Wilde--but more often they remain rather stolidly on the ground, more remarkable for their intentions than for their results...
...build her up as the next Nadia or Mary Lou, Moceanu is keeping a firm grip on reality. "I want a medal, maybe even a gold on the beam." She pauses, then shrugs and adds, "A medal in the all-around." While neither achievement would place her in the firmament of such all-around stars as Comaneci and Retton, if Moceanu can be her witty, outspoken self in Atlanta, a strong performance should be enough to earn her Olga Korbut honors: sweetheart of the Summer Games...