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...netted the team's first hat trick since defenseman Matt Scorsune '00 picked up a trio in a 7-6 win over Vermont two years ago. Captain Steve Moore notched a goal--his first tally since the second game of the season--and five assists in the two-game stint...
...oldest skeleton in the closet goes to Donald Rumsfeld. A story in the Chicago Tribune has raised a ghost that Bush's nominee for secretary of defense probably wishes had stayed buried. The paper claims that during tapes from the Nixon administration, Rumsfeld, on his way to his first stint in the Pentagon under Gerald Ford, can be heard agreeing with some of Nixon's less politically correct assessments of minority groups...
...summa cum laude graduate of Oberlin College, Quine came to Harvard to earn his Ph.D. in philosophy and stayed for the rest of his career, aside from a stint as a Navy cryptographer during World War II and his travels around the globe (he spoke half a dozen languages and visited over 100 countries...
Martin's Greenspan is a better read. A former FORTUNE writer, Martin gives us a real biography, one that winds through Greenspan's geeky youth (band, glee club, math nerd) to his stint as a professional clarinet player and time spent in the inner circle of author Ayn Rand, and then to his advisory role with Presidents Nixon and Ford. Along the way we learn that Greenspan is yet another powerful political figure who was in the room but didn't inhale, and that as a child he was terrified of the movie Frankenstein. We also get plenty of quotable...
After this brief military stint, Bush entered what he has referred to as the "nomadic years" of his life...