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...started a week ago when the New York Knicks traded Patrick Ewing to the Seattle in a massive, four-team deal that brought Glen Rice to New York. The embattled Hall of Fame center ended 15 years of service to Madison Square Garden crowds amidst talk that the team was better without...
...rules last January, Bush's point man on fiscal issues tried to nip it in the bud. Appropriations committee chairman Robert Junell had legislative budget analysts project the costs to the state and made sure each legislator saw the eye-popping numbers: $600 million over two years. Democratic representative Glen Maxey saw the unsolicited analysis as an end run to scare off undecided members. "It's a higher mountain to climb," Maxey told TIME. And he, for one, has little hope of climbing...
...Water Engine provides the same themes of despair, exploitation, and corporate greed as are found in other Mamet productions such as the Pulitzer Prize-winning Glengarry Glen Ross. But don't expect strict realism, or the rapid-fire tough talk for which Mamet is known. Mamet originally wrote the play in 1976 as a radio play for National Public Radio, not for the stage. But director Stephen Benson, making his debut with the Pet Brick Players, takes up the challenge. The set - a radio studio, fitted with old-fashioned microphones - bolsters the theme of communication stressed throughout the piece...
...friends to describe Karenna, one word always comes up: tough. She was the Tennessee state champion in water skiing. Her coach, Glen Birdwell, says Karenna repeatedly skied after hitting the water so hard that she broke her ribs. And during one dry summer, when rattlesnakes began coming into the lake and the male skiers began to scream and scatter, Karenna grabbed a snake and held it aloft, its venomous mouth clamped in her grip...
Kaempfer launched his career in Europe after hitting a wall in the U.S. He grew up in Connecticut, graduated from New York University and Harvard Business School, then moved to Washington in 1973 to work for home developer (and co-founder of the original McArthurGlen) Alan Glen. Kaempfer started his own home-building business four years later and then created one of Washington's top office developers, Kaempfer Co. Trouble hit in the early '90s, when the capital's property market collapsed and left Kaempfer Co. wallowing in $1 billion worth of red ink. (It avoided bankruptcy and is once...