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According to one former Mather House resident, Peter J. Martinez ’07, it was Zakarin’s students-first attitude that made him popular...
...What do you think of the many Bon Jovi tribute bands that are out there? My son-in-law's the drummer in one. -Peter Wolk, Brooklyn, N.Y.I think that they are a great compliment. And once I can start getting them to do interviews for me, they would really serve a purpose...
...there are only two real ways to extend or even increase the surge: call up more reservists - always tough to do in an election year - or extend active-duty combat tours from the current morale-wrecking 15 months to an even more painful 18 months. But Marine General Peter Pace, outgoing chairman of the Joint Chiefs, reassured GIs in Afghanistan this week that 18-month combat tours are not, as has been rumored, in their future. "An 18-month tour has zero, zero, none, nada, squat, nothing, no validity, OK?" he said. "I want to make sure you got that...
...truly a mystery. Peter G. Peterson, a co-founder of the Blackstone Group, was one of the great deficit bores of the 1980s and 1990s, warning about the huge gap between what society had promised people and what would be available to keep those promises. (He was right, but it was still boring.) Peterson made $1.88 billion when Blackstone went public last month. Here was an opportunity for statesmanship that you would have thought Peterson would be unable to resist. Like Warren Buffett and Bill Gates Sr., he could be the rich man who speaks the truth to other rich...
...relative modesty of its resources. According to the Vatican's recently released 2006 budget, annual expenses and revenues are just over $300 million, which includes operations of Vatican City and of the Church's diplomatic corps. The income comes both from individual donations directly to the Pope, called Peter's Pence, which nearly doubled to $102 million last year, and from contributions from dioceses around the world, which take in the vast majority of donated funds from parishioners. Ultimately though, the actual net worth of the worldwide Church, over which the Pope always holds the last word, is indeed vastly...