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Most importantly, however, the MacManuses enjoy the unspoken support of the Boston Police Department, which falls all over itself to keep them safe and out of jail as the body count rises. Taking the place of morally conflicted FBI Special Agent Paul Smecker (Willem Dafoe) is his proteg??© Eunice Bloom (Julie Benz), a sassy southerner who stalks the city in Christian Louboutin stilettos and keeps her gun in a leather holster draped about her svelte waistline. Sharing her mentor’s clairvoyant crime detection abilities, she manages to simultaneously anger and entice her male coworkers while conjuring...
After a prolonged silence on the matter, the Harvard Corporation finally defended Lawrence H. Summers’ handling of the fraud case surrounding economist Andrei Shleifer ’82, a close friend and proteg??© of the University president.But the defense came too late to salvage Summers’ presidency.In a letter dated Tuesday, overshadowed by the announcement of Summers’ resignation that same day, the Corporation’s senior fellow, James R. Houghton ’58, addressed fresh allegations that Summers had shielded Shleifer from disciplinary action at Harvard. Several professors raised concerns about...
...their motives, Morris has turned to Kacyvenski and Nowinski for advice. And it’s not just the successful pros who advise Morris about how to run the gauntlet. Terrence Patterson ’00 was Harvard’s primary pre-Morris receiver, and has seen his proteg??© take an axe to his receiving records. Patterson, who worked out briefly for the NFL before winding up with a corporate job in the Walt Disney Company, never garnered the hype that surrounds Morris now, but he says that what chatter there...
...Texas. The wires between the White House and the Austin statehouse hummed. Johnson at one point badly needed Connally's support for a project but the Governor would not talk to him; the President phoned a startled Congressman Gonzalez at midnight and asked him to persuade the prodigal proteg?...
...days before his wife sued him for divorce last spring, John Barrymore sailed on a Caribbean cruise with Elaine Barrie, a 19-year-old "proteg??e"' who had changed her name from Jacobs to sound more like Barrymore. Later friends reported that he bought her a diamond ring, shopped with her for a bedroom set. Last week Actor Barrymore was still being sued for divorce when he stamped out of the Jacobs' Manhattan apartment, went into hiding. Said apartment clerks: "He was awful mad." Said Protegee Barrie's lawyer: "Mr. & Mrs. Jacobs feel a deep sympathy for Mr. Barrymore...