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...lawyers hired over the next five years were Law School graduates. That trend has continued to the present: 58 percent of a recent batch of new associates in the firm were Law School alumni, according to the American Lawyer Guide. And Sargeant says, "We still have a keen interest in hiring from Harvard...
Tower, 57, rose from obscurity as a political science professor to win the Sen ate seat vacated in 1961 when Lyndon Johnson became Vice President. He is known in the Senate for his acerbic wit, keen mind and temper- and his ardent advocacy of military spending...
...York Yacht Club, custodian of the Cup and grand panjandrum of its defense, has howled that the radical keel is an infraction of the 12-meter rule, even though it passed muster earlier this year before keen-eyed measurers, including the club's own tape man. With its lowered ballast and jetlike wings, the innovative yacht can slice through the water with less turbulence, turn virtually on a dime, and stand much more erect than its rivals when they beat into the wind, thereby drawing more power from its sails. Remarkably, all this seems perfectly within the rules. Even...
...years ago, Steven Fishman was a New York University student without a job but with a keen eye for a bargain. Today Fishman, 20, is still a student without a job, but he is $50,000 ahead. He made that much on the stock market, mostly by devoting his lunch hours to trading options on the stocks of Tandy and Digital Equipment. The profits have paid for a few years of his N.Y.U. tuition, plus, as he puts it, "a lot of dinners with my girlfriend...
...retains a keen appreciation of the maverick qualities of his adopted home town, which was only 30 years old when McMullan arrived with his family in 1926 at the age of four. "Miami is still trying to sort out its values," he says. "There was a time when if you had eliminated the ex-cons from the University of Miami's board of trustees, you would have taken off some of the best people in town." The McMullan style will be difficult to emulate. His successor, former Managing Editor Heath Meriwether, 39, will not try. Says he: "My approach...