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...Washington's largest firms, where he quickly emerged as the supreme commander of Supreme Court battles. Between his government and corporate jobs, he argued 39 cases before the high court and won 25 of them. Colleagues recall his racing around the law firm with a white legal pad, jotting down questions he might be asked and then answering them. "He had it all the time," says a former colleague and fellow Rehnquist clerk, Gregory Garre. "I don't think he brought it to the supermarket, but he would have it with him in the office, and he'd bring...
...David Stockman sits and scrawls on his yellow legal pad all his tart recollections of how things really work in the Reagan White House, he is earning about $2,200 an hour. Figuring, that is, that the departing Budget Director is toiling away eight hours every day to produce by his Dec. 1 deadline the blockbuster book for which Harper & Row has just given him a prodigious advance of $2 million plus. A handsome sum indeed, enough to pay about five minutes' worth of the deficit in the Administration's own federal budget for this year. It would have taken...
Like a grim ghost ship, the broken space capsule sat on the ocean floor, 18 miles east of the launching pad at Cape Canaveral. Peering through the clear blue water of the Gulf Stream, U.S. Navy divers could make out the remains of several crew members of the space shuttle Challenger. The astronauts, some still strapped into their seats, had come to rest in 100 ft. of water after the long plunge from the sky on the icy morning last January that marked a crash landing for the U.S. space program...
...shuttle explosion, and then dropped to the ocean in a nine-mile fall lasting three to four minutes. The photos, which NASA released last week under pressure from a presidential investigation commission, were taken by a high-speed telephoto tracking camera two miles from the launching pad. They show what appears to be an intact crew cabin sailing out and away from the blast, raising new questions about whether the astronauts could have survived had Challenger been equipped with parachutes or escape rockets. HEALTH Barring Aliens With AIDS...
...likes to ride Buddy, which she describes lovingly as "a low-down, dirty, Pocono Mountain 4-H pony." She turns 50 in July. "It's a big deal, although 50 is the new 40," she says. Her second marriage over, she shares her home with four dogs, which pad along after her like an obedient pack. Many authors write for a few hours in the morning, but Scottoline works throughout the day and into the night, with breaks for daytime television ("Oprah is my girl crush," she gushes). She is a peripatetic writer, moving among four home computers...