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...start working with the Cosmos until 1978, when a bizarre coincidence brought up his name in a New York taxicab conversation between a Lipton tea magnate of his acquaintance and the Cosmos director of television coverage. Since then, the soccer job has been what he calls his "weekend getaway," peaking over the summer with the soccer season and necessitating an intimate relationship with the New York-Boston shuttle flight. But things have become more complicated since he took on the interim post of financial aid director during a year-long search to replace Martha Lyman, who had succeeded him when...
...interest in the "weekend getaway" goes back as far as the ones that led him to his more visible career in Harvard's admissions office. As a high school senior in his native Dublin, Malin held down a broadcasting job for "Ireland's only radio station," a strictly amateur interest he expected to let slide. He would have gone on to the University of Dublin that year if his father, a journalist, hadn't unexpectedly landed a job with the Boston Globe. So Malin filed a late application to Harvard ("I know I got in no international distribution" he still...
Tracing the license-plate number of the getaway car, New York City police at week's end arrested Salvatore Odierno, 67, a reputed associate of mobsters who have been questioned in the Silverman probe, and charged him with second-degree murder. Federal investigators believe that the Mob, unable to "reach" the elder Masselli in prison, may have ordered the death of his son as a message to keep quiet. Masselli is also co-owner of Jo-Pel Contracting & Trucking Corp., which has been named in a half-million-dollar New York City landfill and excavation scandal. But investigators tend...
...next month or even next week hardly mattered to weary traders who were relishing the greatest five days in Wall Street history. On a typical Friday afternoon in August, almost all the brokers would have made a quick getaway for the weekend. Last Friday evening, though, the bar of Harry's at Hanover Square, a favorite Street hangout, was jammed with revelers. Said William LeFevre, market strategist for the Purcell Graham & Co. investment firm: "We saw things in the market this week that we never thought would happen." It was a rally to remember, and savor, for a long...
Scalise also said he would refuse to discuss the investigation, which apparently has not implicated him in the assault itself. He did, however, say that his car had been incorrectly identified as the getaway vehicle, adding that "I basically saw the [assailant's] car get away, but I can't identify...