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...chief of staff Andrew Card. He wanted to meet the next day. In a time-honored Washington version of hara-kiri, Lindsey offered his resignation before he was fired. The next one expected to go, probably next month, is the head of Bush's Council of Economic Advisers, Glenn Hubbard, who wants to return to teaching. His departure would complete the housecleaning that began when Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Harvey Pitt resigned on election night. Though the abruptness of last week's moves was startling--not least to the two men ousted--it wasn't entirely surprising. Bush...
...didn't help that long-simmering policy feuds between O'Neill and Lindsey--at bottom reflecting the mutual distrust between a corporate honcho and an intellectual--were getting increasingly personal. Lindsey was fingered for leaking damaging criticism of O'Neill and Hubbard. At strategy sessions with Bush, O'Neill frequently interrupted Lindsey to disagree with him. "There was no creative tension," says a senior aide, "just tension." After the bloodletting last week, staff members for each man blamed the other for their boss's misfortune. For a White House that prides itself on unity and order, it was an exceptional...
...Staff writer Tyson E. Hubbard can be reached at thubbard@fas.harvard.edu...
Goelman, a second-year doctoral student at MIT, is living proof that the school is a breeding ground for the creative spirit. Lost on the Road, Goelman’s tale of a fairy slave, won the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest on his very first try. The contest is limited to unpublished writers of speculative fiction, which includes both science fiction and fantasy, and bears the illustrious name of Hubbard, prolific science fiction author and founder of Scientology. Winning submissions are published in an annual anthology...
Science fiction aficionados consider Battlefield Earth one of Hubbard’s best works. But Goelman hesitates to make an authoritative judgment, having not delved much into the Hubbard canon. “I read one a long time ago and it was fine,” he says delicately. “L. Ron Hubbard wrote in a very pulpy time.” Asked about his own literary tastes, Goelman mentions Kafka and Borges, and adds, “I thought Harry Potter was great...