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...arrangement has worked, at least financially. Before the start of this season and last, Snickers, drawn to the young audience that snowboarding attracts, signed a handsome contract with the Collection. Nickelodeon and Yamaha have also inked deals with the maverick boarders...
That political dynamic has left the nominee's longtime friends and colleagues scratching their heads; the Alito they are reading about bears little resemblance to the conservative yet cautious man they know. "He's careful, he's methodical, he's no maverick or extremist," says Susan L. Sullivan, a legal consultant in San Francisco and self-described liberal Democrat who clerked for Alito in 1990 and '91. Sullivan thinks opponents are "cherry-picking decisions." But that is standard procedure for any confirmation fight. And Lawrence Lustberg, a New Jersey defense lawyer who has known Alito for decades and likes...
...worthy of the leadership of the G-8, which it will take for the first time this year. But no one will be giving him the benefit of the doubt after the dramatic resignation of his economic adviser, the outspoken liberal reformer Andrei Illarionov, 44. The economist, a Kremlin maverick, fought to curb state interference in the economy, particularly in the energy sector. But with Moscow tightening its grip on oil and natural gas, Illarionov was recently stripped of a key post with the G-8 and had his staff cut. Illarionov implies he had been under pressure to keep...
...Always a maverick, he had called for a sharp devaluation of the Russian ruble before the August 1998 financial meltdown. Illarionov is also credited with playing an important role in making the 13 percent flat income tax a reality. From the outset of Putin?s presidency, Illarionov struggled to curb state interference in the economy and oppose the monopolist economic policies of natural gas, electricity and railway corporations...
DIED. WILLIAM PROXMIRE, 90, fiery Wisconsin Senator who during 31 years in office remained a tenacious critic of Washington's status quo; in Sykesville, Md. Over 19 years, the maverick Democrat, elected in 1957 following the death of Senator Joseph McCarthy, gave more than 3,000 speeches on the floor in support of an international treaty banning genocide until it was finally approved in 1986. He spent little on his campaigns--in his last two elections, he accepted no contributions--and in 1975 instituted Congress's monthly Golden Fleece awards to highlight wasteful spending by the government. Among the winners...