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...extremely baked Harold B. Mackey ’03 recently called HUPD to report the presence of a “mongoose with giant teeth” in his common room. Police responded and, following Mackey’s careful instructions, delicately removed a toothbrush from his bathroom...
...Friends, family, acquaintances, casual acquaintances, really distant family members, people who sat next to him in lecture once—basically anyone who has ever met Harold B. Mackey ’03—were shocked and appalled to find out that he has started spending Wednesday afternoons tutoring at-risk youths at a local junior high school. According to blockmates and police, Mackey’s only previously expressed public-service goal was “throwing a goddamn flaming brick through the window of the Fly?...
...game in a semipro league and signed him to be their third-stringer. Two years later, his precise passes and menacing game face rallied the Colts past the Giants in a match that helped spark new popularity for the NFL. His icy confidence inspired teammate John Mackey to remark at the time, "It's like being in a huddle with God." When Unitas retired in 1973, he was the first quarterback to reach 40,000 yards for a career. His 47 consecutive games with a touchdown pass are still a league record...
...step toward Whole Foods' goal was its acquisition of Harry's Farmers Market, an ailing Atlanta-area chain that Mackey scooped up last year for $35 million. Harry's was losing money, and is dragging down Whole Foods' earnings. But the chain provides access to the Southeast, where Whole Foods is weak. And Harry's three megastores fit the prototype for Whole Foods' expansion plans; they are massive, fun (with cookouts on weekends) and strong in perishables and prepared foods--high-margin segments that account for 60% of Whole Foods' sales...
...Mackey is a model CEO when it comes to bang for the buck. Last year he took home a relatively modest $350,000 in wages and bonus and $2.2 million from selling Whole Foods stock. (He owns only 1% of the shares outstanding.) The firm is running so smoothly these days that Mackey has all but disappeared. Since early April he has been hiking the Appalachian Trail; he intends to finish its entire 2,168-mile length by the fall...