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Robert Winters, a Harvard mathematics preceptor who ran unsuccessfully for a council seat in 1993, says he expects that the incumbents who choose to run will retain their seats because of the city's complex voting system, proportional representation...
...water on the floor. I noticed this quite offensive smell that I can't really describe." Others smelled it too and edged away. By Kamiyacho station, 11 minutes after the strange man had boarded, commuters panicked. Says Matthias Vukovich, an Austrian student who was in the car: "Everyone just ran off, and I didn't know what was going on. Someone yelled, 'It's gas!'" Looking back, Vukovich, whose eyes and head were beginning to hurt, glimpsed the puddle. Next to it sat an immobile old man. His name, it turned out, was Shunkichi Watanabe; he was a retired cobbler...
There is plenty of blame to go around. Agee and his wife Mary Cunningham are widely resented in Boise, not only for the 600-some layoffs Agee ordered following his arrival in 1988 but also for moving his family to Pebble Beach, California, where he ran the company by remote control from a linkside villa. Agee has his defenders, although few of them are willing to speak on the record. Far from hiding problems from the board, his supporters say, the deposed chairman reported them as quickly as they came to light. Many of the woes involved Morrison Knudsen...
Lisa was a senior at the University of Pennsylvania when she found herself embroiled in an affair with a young English professor named Malcolm Woodfield. His tastes ran to whips and riding crops, she told Philadelphia magazine, and when she tried to get out of the relationship, the professor bullied her into continuing. She need not worry about flunking his course, she recalls his saying, because "your grade is not based on your work anyway...
That's a sizable market niche. Says Casey Hoffman, who ran Texas' child-support collection program from 1986 to 1990: "At some point, I realized that the private sector was going to have to come into play." So Hoffman jumped the fence and in 1991 founded Child Support Enforcement; today his firm employs eight full-time investigators on some 3,000 cases. Hoffman's backround as a high public official is unusual; the business runs more to seasoned debt collectors such as Find Dad's Mel Shaw, who will say, straight-faced, of a projected quarry, "I' m his worst...