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...Securities and Exchange Commission was written in the usual dry legalese. But the bare facts that it laid out would make a fitting plot for J.R. and his cronies. The former chief executive of a $4 billion Dallas-based conglomerate, 64, has a "private personal relationship" with a company receptionist and provides her with "monetary support." He shares "lunches, dinners, trips, vacations, and social gatherings" with a small circle of high-living Southerners and their women friends. Generously, but illegally, he also shares stock tips worth $1.9 million with his friends...
...mentioned time and time again by those involved in the Olympic effort: a security planning chief who can't conceive of going back to being a police division commander, the L.A.O.O.C. head of personnel who doesn't want to return to punching a corporation clock, even the receptionist who is unhappy at the thought of teaching school again. If they can put on the largest Olympic Games ever held, they say, how can they ever return to mundane jobs...
...parents, advisors, possible seminar instructors and prospective employers. Harvard seems to assume that even calls of this nature are a luxury for students. Even though the administration did make some small effort here, for example, the message list in Adams House C-entry, a busy Superintendant does not a receptionist make...
Couldn't a few phones have been set up with this problem in mind? Perhaps one could even go so far as to suggest a temporary receptionist, designated simply to take down names and phone numbers. Though this might seem to some a measure of considerable expense and intricacy, it would have caused considerably fewer problems than the current situation poses, and would, no doubt, cost less than to rush such an extensive project to a more timely completion...
...Miami, Diane, 27, a receptionist, said she married "a real nice guy," a Dr. Jekyll who turned into Mr. Hyde a week after the wedding. "Being married to this man was like being a prisoner of war. I was not allowed to visit my family. I couldn't go out on my own. He wouldn't even let me cry. If I did, it started an 'episode...