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...Corker Q. Picker ’02-03 intern at the Washington Institute of Sticking a Rod Up Your Ass this summer or what...
...square and a hearth. JoAnn McCluskey, whose husband was with Engine 54 before his death five years ago, says, "This place was like a family. We did Christmas parties and picnics. One guy used to get on top of the building across the street and get in the cherry picker on the fire truck and be Santa." Even, or especially, for neighbors who didn't have a personal connection to the fire fighters or the victims, the station provides an emotional focus. Tamar Kaman, a cosmetics marketer who lives three blocks away, cried as she added flowers to the pile...
Meanwhile, NASD is cranking out new rules to protect investors from themselves as well as from overzealous stock pickers. From now until November, and once a year after that, brokers must send a letter to each margin customer spelling out the risks associated with such accounts. This fall NASD and the New York Stock Exchange will raise the daily cash requirement for day traders from $2,000 to $25,000 and reduce the time they have to meet margin calls from seven days to five. NASD has also decreed that online recommendations must be tailored to a customer's investment...
...from his mentor. He managed the bureaucracy well, remaining a close adviser to the president and maintaining the political capital the Treasury had built up during the Rubin years. He kept relations with the other branches of the government civil and productive. He demonstrated his skills as a people picker, finding a wealth of talent to fill openings beneath him and coordinating the restructuring of the IRS that culminated with the search to pick a new director. And probably not entirely unrelated to Harvard’s interests, he oversaw the last year and a half of the longest economic...
...laughed last year when NBC signed Chains of Love--in which a "picker," male or female, is chained to four "dates" over four days--and called it a "relationship show." (NBC later took the high road and aired the XFL instead.) Turns out the description was accurate. The surprising thing about Chains (UPN, Tuesdays, 8 p.m. E.T.) is not the PG-rated sex play (the chainees wear chaste bathing suits even in a hot tub) but the discovery that even reality-TV exhibitionists have thoroughly internalized the chatty psychobabble of relationship gurus. In the debut, picker Andy spends less time...