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...divorced Gumbel's endeavors will be to wed girlfriend Hilary Quinlan; he will also continue to act as host on Real Sports on hbo. Beyond that, little of his plans are known. Though its ratings have improved somewhat, The Early Show has languished in third place in its time slot, behind NBC and abc, drawing attention mainly when ousted contestants from the previous night's Survivor showed up for a debriefing. Gumbel's relationship with Katie Couric on Today was at times frosty, and he and Early Show co-host Jane Clayson never really cozied up either. No word...
...keep in mind that his Corporation membership too should prompt questions. One wonders whom else they considered for the slot: it seems like settling on Rubin was all too easy. Did they even discuss anyone else? Thanks to the traditionally zipped lips, I have no idea; but I suspect not. They’d been trying to get him since he left Treasury in 1997, according to comments he made in The Crimson. He’d played hard-to-get earlier, but now, with the bait of working with Summers again on the end of their fishing line...
...whom should the slot go? How to round out a list that includes Gray, the two ex-Secretaries of the Treasury (Summers, as president, is on the Corporation ex officio), lawyer Conrad K. Harper (the only black member), new Senior Fellow James R. Houghton ’58 (also presumably not far from retirement), and Treasurer D. Ronald Daniel (who formerly ran McKinsey and Co.). “We’ll probably be looking at what void there is on the Corporation, whether we need a scientist or an academician,” Stone said in The Crimson. Well...
Cornell was without two of its best singles players, and the Crimson took quick advantage. Lingman and Chu won the first two singles matches, with Chu cruising easily, 6-2, 6-1. Nguyen fell to defeat in the third slot, but sophomore Mark Riddell won the No. 4 singles 6-3, 6-0 and Turner took the No. 6 singles point...
...men’s team became the first eastern team to defeat a West Coast team at the NCAA Championships, finishing in sixth place overall. The tournament field has since been reduced to four teams with one East Coast representative, and UMass has filled that Final Four slot three of the past four years...