Word: heavyweights
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Buttoned-down and cerebral at work, Bolten has a looser side away from the office. He cruises around Austin on one of his two heavyweight motorcycles, a Harley-Davidson and a Victory. While at Goldman Sachs, he invested in a hot-air-balloon company that sold rides over London to tourists. His wry sense of humor makes him a staff favorite (a policy briefing he was asked to give at the Republican National Convention--to Bo Derek--has been a source of jokes ever since). Bush likes to call his policy director "Yosh," and "just loves the weird connection...
...same carnival-like atmosphere. For a TV watcher, this spectacle makes for great viewing. Watch some javelin during the lull between 100-m heats. Cut away to the Aquatic Centre, where Fu Mingxia, triple gold medalist, will dive for China. Flip to a few rounds of the legendary Cuban heavyweight fighter Felix Savon. Here's Marion Jones--she wants to be the first woman to win five track-and-field golds in one Olympics--warming up for the long jump, but before she leaps you can thrill to Ian Thorpe--"Thorpedo"--Australia's 17-year-old swimming sensation. Then there...
Humans have even less of a chance against Karelin, 32, a super-heavyweight Greco-Roman wrestler who has won gold medals in each of the past three Summer Games. In fact, the Siberian native has never lost in international competition. His streak extends 13 years, an astounding record. No wonder Karelin is a bogatyr--a folk hero--in Russia, where he represents his home town in the Duma (the Russian parliament) and holds the rank of colonel in the customs police...
...billion purchase of U.S. investment bank Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette by Credit Suisse Group bumps the Swiss bank up to the broker-dealer heavyweight division that includes industry leaders Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley. It also keeps CS in step with its main Swiss rival, United Bank of Switzerland, who announced two months ago it was buying PaineWebber...
...such explosive issues as the return of Palestinian refugees, boundaries of a Palestinian state and control of Jerusalem--in short, all the issues dividing the two sides. Along the arbored paths of Camp David, over meals of steak and salmon or in their private cabins, every foreign policy heavyweight in the Administration, including Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and National Security Adviser Sandy Berger, is hammering on those issues with the delegations of Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Failure is a very real possibility, and Ross, who will have to pick up the pieces, is keenly...