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...liberal-progressive caravan on social issues. These days he's either pitching to his party's conservative base or trying to master the populism that explains Howard's hold on the masses. Costello is not soft. The argument that he's had an easy run and needs a stint in opposition to forge his character smells of retribution for Costello's unfortunate smirk. Just as valid, if no less comforting for his supporters, is the view that, considering the discipline, stress and scrutiny that goes with the job, 10 years as Treasurer has been too burdensome a preparation. Is Costello...
...novel's hero, Jason Steadman, 30, is a sales exec at Entronics, a fictional Japanese-owned corporation. Although Steadman is a devotee of military-style business books, he's no warrior on the corporate battlefield--until he meets Kurt Semko, a former special-forces officer who did a stint in Iraq. "He's everything Gordy [his boss] and all these other phony tough guys pretend to be," Steadman thinks. "Sitting in their Aeron chairs and talking about 'dog eat dog' and 'killing the competition.' Only he's for real. He's actually killed people." Semko's swagger leads Steadman into...
...long made it clear that Treasury will primarily execute what the West Wing decides. Someone like Robert Rubin, who became Treasury chief after running economic policy for Bill Clinton, could still hold sway over that process because he was smart, had already designed the game plan during his stint in the White House and had an unmatched track record on Wall Street. But this White House is a closed loop; if you aren't there, you don't matter very much...
...final Faculty meeting as dean last week, Kirby said that a group of professors would draft legislation on general education over the summer—meaning that the Faculty may vote on a possible successor to the Core Curriculum as early as the fall.Knowles, who did a two-year stint in the British Royal Air Force before graduating first-class from Oxford University, earned renown as a chemist before becoming an administrator. A scholar of enzymes, Knowles was the first to develop a full kinetic description of a simple enzyme-catalyzed reaction.That enzyme, triosephosphate isomerase, or TIM, is now known...
...DIED. Lew Anderson, 84, jazz saxophonist most famous for his six-year stint as Clarabell the Clown, Buffalo Bob Smith's sidekick on TV's seminal '50s hit, The Howdy Doody Show; in Hawthorne, New York. The popular seltzer-squirting clown was mute until the show's final episode in 1960, when a teary Anderson?whose band played in New York City clubs until the 1990s?turned to the camera and uttered the now famous, often replayed sign-off: "Goodbye, kids...