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...steve pruzan, his high school debate partner, would talk seriously about the day raines might become the first black president. in 1977 a congressional seat opened up and pruzan began organizing a raines campaign. instead, raines took a job in the carter white house that included his first stint at OMB. when carter lost, raines went to work, making millions of dollars, first as a partner doing municipal finance at the manhattan investment house lazard freres. when the travel for that job became too much for a man with a young family, he accepted an offer to become vice chairman...
Ozment's work on the Reformation era continued with a stint at an institute for Reformation study in Germany. The requirements of this position made even more evident the intertwining of his family life and teaching career...
...creature of tics and slouches, plotting his wife's death and stalking the seraphic Stefania Sandrelli with the gait of a mopey Groucho. He made informed fun not only of these familiar Italian comic figures but also of his own star machismo. At the end of a guest stint on Laugh-In, TV's vaudeville for the Nixon years, he stared moonily into the camera, then yanked off his toupee, revealing a few vagrant strands of hair. The ardor, the bedroom voice, the coiffure--it's all pretend, see? Acting...
...played baseball well enough to be drafted by the then Kansas City Athletics after attending a prep school in New England. At his father's insistence, Richardson left baseball behind and chose Tufts University, ending up with a master's degree in international relations. After a three-year stint as an aide on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he moved to New Mexico to run for Congress...
...event kicked off at 9 a.m. with a keynote address by Betsey Wright, who was President Clinton's chief of staff during his seven-year stint as governor of Arkansas...