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...showered DeLay's staff with sports and concert tickets. After Buckham left, Abramoff developed a close relationship with deputy chief of staff Tony Rudy. "For all intents and purposes, Tony worked for Jack," contends a former Abramoff associate, who tells TIME that Abramoff even bought Rudy a text-messaging pager so that they would never be out of touch. Prosecutors allege that Abramoff also funneled payments to Rudy's wife?10 monthly payments totaling $50,000?through a nonprofit. When Rudy left DeLay's staff in 2000, he joined Abramoff at the lobbying firm of Greenberg Traurig. Rudy now works...
...Nationals? I had forsworn baseball fandom when Bill Buckner let the ball roll through his legs and the Red Sox blew Game 6. When my son did his mandatory second-grade family essay, he called his one-pager "My Dad and Baseball" and wrote, "But after the 1986 World Series he decided he'd had enough...
...director, general counsel and deputy chief of staff. Abramoff and Rudy shared passions for sushi, racquetball and golf, and the lobbyist lavished sports tickets on the congressional aide. Two former DeLay staff members recall that Rudy would frequently e-mail Abramoff from inside Republican leadership meetings on a Motorola pager that Hill staff members carried as a precursor to their now ubiquitous BlackBerrys...
...During the 1873 “run,” or punch, the inductees, called “neophytes,” were forced to write long sets of poems and essays, including 50-page comparisons of the relative merits of a classical and mathematical education and another 50-pager on the relationship between chemistry and medicine. Shortly before punch night, the members burned the essays and poems and asked the neophytes to rewrite them...
Absent-minded folk everywhere rejoiced when they realized that cordless-phone stands had a "pager" button to help them locate their misplaced handsets. Now this convenience can be brought to any frequently mislaid item with The Sharper Image's Now You Can Find It! Wireless RF Electronic Locator. Beeper discs can attach via key ring or double-sided adhesive pad to keys, glasses, and even your Harvard ID. A different button on the portable base will make each disc beep loudly. With a 30-foot range, you'll never have to rifle through the papers on your desk again. Available...