Word: nine
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...some friction between the White House and Congress is inevitable during the transition from a Republican to a Democratic Administration. "Every Democrat on the Hill had a backlog of people he wanted jobs for," Moore says. His office still gets 1,000 calls a day (down from 2,000 nine months ago) for everything from jobs to appointments with the President. He has had to learn by experience which ones he must personally return or risk bruising powerful egos. "I'm getting to know the people on the Hill and what motivates them," he says, and criticism...
...last week, after spending 18 hours deliberating on nine weeks of testimony, the jury of five blacks and seven whites found Nicky Barnes guilty. Mr. Untouchable finally got touched. A gasp rose from the courtroom, which was packed with Barnes' friends and relatives. Convicted along with Barnes were four of his "lieutenants" plus six members of a "lower echelon," all of them charged with conspiracy. It was they who actually negotiated bulk deals for their boss. Prosecutors said Barnes never handled the drugs himself. His defense attorney, David Breitbart, said he would challenge the prosecution's evidence once...
...record he would like to be known as 1069 (pronounced One Zero Six Nine), but friends may call him "One Zero" for short. He wants society to recognize his right to use the four digits as his legal name rather than the one his parents gave him-Michael Herbert Dengler. After four years of unsuccessful attempts to get North Dakota and Minnesota authorities, the telephone company and a series of employers to identify him by his numerical name, Dengler, now 32 and a sometime short-order cook, last week sued for the name change in Minnesota's Hennepin County...
About six years ago, when my brothers, sisters and I were between the tender ages of nine and 13, my father got the brilliant idea that we should all take up skiing. He had picked up the sport, he said, back in college--way back before the down of fiberglass time, when they used wooden skis that just fastened on to your feet with whatever means available--and had enjoyed it. Apparently, the weekend trips to such winter wonderlands as Stowe and Killington were some of the best times he ever had in school. So despite protests from my mother...
Bethel, who pestered Harvard all night with his forechecking and his menacing shots, scored his second goal of the night with the Crimson's Murray Dea in the slammer for interference. It took B.U. just nine seconds to connect fatally on its seventh power-play opportunity...