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ABRAMOFF I regret that in the heat of the locker-room atmosphere of the lobbying world, I sometimes--rarely, but sometimes--resorted to language more common to a drill sergeant or a football coach. These regrettable utterances were not directed at my clients. They were usually reserved for those attacking my clients. Many of my e-mails have been maliciously taken out of context. As a result, I've been portrayed as a cynical barbarian preying on the very clients I was charged to defend. Nothing could be further from the truth. I have a solid record of years...
...that Raffarin's gone after the referendum, but saying so may have cost him the job," predicts an official of the ruling conservative Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) party. "With public opinion as negative as it is, the last thing we needed was a fight in our own locker room...
Most memorably, we walked down to the Sox locker room, right into the den of the now-mythic gaggle of “idiots,” and everywhere we turned, there was someone I’d once resisted drafting in fantasy baseball. Alex and I interviewed Nomar, Johnny Damon, Ellis Burks. We watched Pokey Reese bizarrely play a hunting video game on Xbox with the help of Alan Embree...
...What can I get for me today?' The luster of ballplayers as American heroes has dulled." Nor did the fans feel very sorry for the owners, who, despite their poor-mouthing, toss about millions of dollars, largely, it sometimes seems, for the privilege of hanging about their employees' locker room...
...boss's locker-room mentality, though, is not the only reason for Montgomery's success. During the past four years, Weisel has raided Wall Street for top talent, sometimes regardless of athletic ability, by luring prospects with the opportunity to own stock in his brokerage by the bay. One important catch was Alan Stein, a Goldman Sachs veteran who transformed Montgomery's investment-banking division into a big-time operation that expects to underwrite almost $1.5 billion in securities this year, up 200% from...