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...lawyer for America's biggest private prison company, Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), Gus Puryear IV is known to sport well-pressed preppy pink shirts, and his brownish mop of hair stands out among most of President Bush's graying nominees to the federal bench. A favorite of G.O.P. hard-liners, Puryear, 39, prepped Dick Cheney for the vice presidential debates - both in 2000 and 2004 - and served as a senior aide to two former Senators and onetime presidential hopefuls, Bill Frist and Fred Thompson...
...Reagan's tax cuts for the nonrich were big money losers, and it took the fiscal discipline of Bill Clinton to mop up the resulting red ink. Laffer gushes with praise for Clinton, but he's also a fan of Clinton's successor. "What Clinton did was, he gave Bush the fiscal flexibility to do what was right," Laffer says. In the face of the recession and terrorist attacks of 2001, Bush "needed to stimulate the economy and spend for defense, and Clinton gave him the ability to do that...
Lionized as Wall Street’s most capable mop-up man, incoming Merrill Lynch CEO John A. Thain was known as a quiet, polite, and incisive Midwesterner during his days at Harvard Business School. On Saturday, Thain, a 1979 graduate of Harvard, will take charge of Merrill Lynch and attempt to rescue the brokerage firm from the biggest crisis in its 93-year history. In interviews with The Crimson, Thain’s former Business School classmates remembered his days across the Charles, where he attended school along with his Merrill Lynch predecessor E. Stanley O’Neal...
...spiritually centered. It’s funny how well you can rationalize something when you’re scrubbing a toilet. Enough about me, though: just take a gander at Michael Gates Gill’s view of the hard-working commoner: fat, bald, and leaning on a mop. Either way, hidden in the title is a good recommendation for Harvardians: if we can learn to live like everyone else, then when the inevitable class revolution comes, we can simply dress up like them, too, and the proletariat will have to be content with smashing Yale and Princeton instead. Play...
After running for 145 yards and a touchdown in mop-up duty last year, Ho nearly matched that total in his first start, picking up 116 yards on 24 carries against the Crusaders, including a 47-yard touchdown scamper that showcased solid cutting ability and elusiveness...