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...chief counsel in his Whitewater investigation. Ted Olson is now solicitor general, having spent part of the last 8 years helping out with the American Spectator's zealous prosecution of Bill Clinton -even as his wife, Barbara Olson, who used to work for Dan Burton, appeared on a fleet of TV talk shows defending Ken Starr's investigation of Clinton. Brett Kavanaugh, who used to work on Starr's independent counsel probe, is now ensconced in the White House counsel's office. And Tim Griffin, a former Burton investigator, has been operating in a sort of free-floating capacity...
...executive vice president Gerald Schwebel explains that his mother is Mexican, his father Austrian; he went to school in Nuevo Laredo. Bilingual, binational, he is the whole global economy in a suit. Schwebel's bank, the biggest in town with assets of more than $6 billion, has a small fleet of jets at the airport standing by to fly bankers to Europe, Asia and, of course, Mexico to finance deals. "If you are interested in trade," he says, "this is the living laboratory...
...couldn't wait to go home and announce that I would be the hockey beat writer for the Harvard Crimson. I've done that so many times during my four years here-press box at the Fleet Center for the Beanpot, road trips as far as Omaha and Colorado Springs. All the time with hockey culminated in my election as co-Sports Editor along with the great William Bohlen...
...they did. The first to answer the call was freshman midfielder Caitlin Fisher. The fleet-footed Fisher-who ran the wing opposite sophomore Orly Ripmaster this season-netted both the Crimson's goals in a 2-1 win over Loyola Marymount. The Crimson didn't know it then, but the win would be the first in a string of eight victories...
...pressure to be wired - everywhere, always, fast - is hard to ignore. Not long ago I went to see the Celtics play the Jazz at Boston's Fleet Center. I wanted to experience ChoiceSeat, one of the new-generation computers that U.S. sports arenas are installing to give fans an "interactive" experience at the game. It took a while to get comfortable (like about the first quarter), but I finally started making headway with the machine at my seat. You can follow the game (why watch the real thing when you can see it on a tiny screen!), access player stats...