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...Donald Rumsfeld, Gerald Ford's Secretary of Defense; and Congresswoman Pat Schroeder was an undeclared candidate in 1988. Given this pattern of presidential ambition among the '74 selectees, we should not be surprised if Robert Gottlieb, the former editor of the New Yorker, or Saul Steinberg, the onetime greenmail virtuoso, begins showing up at lunch counters in New Hampshire next year, chatting with the citizenry...
...Houlihan, Lokey, Howard & Zukin, which counsels investors on opportunities such as sports. "This is about who gets a bigger share of the pie." The owners have deluded themselves into thinking the players should happily assist them in that redistribution, which violates human nature as well as labor history. Leigh Steinberg, perhaps the most powerful individual agent in professional sports, with some 150 clients under contract, agrees, "These sports are showing an incredible amount of self- destruction. This is a golden opportunity squandered. In each case, the leagues seem to have lost sight of that old proposition: the show must...
Saying that Heller had "a good heart,"Steinberg explained that the term came from adiscussion in the Mishnah that debates differentdesirable human traits. "A good heart" is givenhighest priority "because it leads to" all theother traits, said Steinberg...
...very incisive and at the same timehe can be very wise about life," says Steinberg."And, of course, the bridge is his sense ofhumor...because it's ironic and it kind ofdistances himself from the subject...[this kindof] warm irony is one which one associates withJewish piety, the piety of the rabbis...
...erhaps the best way of thinking aboutJosh Heller is the one offered by Steinberg at thecelebration of his completion of the Mishnah lastmonth...