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...stadium, completed just as Bush was launching his gubernatorial run, gave a lift to the team and Bush too. When he left in 1994, his $606,000 investment paid him almost $15 million. The Rangers' success provided a launching pad for his campaign. Perhaps, too, his stint also taught him a lesson about politics. In his office is a novelty baseball inscribed simply: "Sometimes you just have to play hardball...
...sought a second opinion from Chris Komisarjevsky, who claims to enjoy traveling with his six children, ages 6 to 12. A stint as a helicopter pilot in Vietnam prepared him for this challenge: "You learn to keep your cool." But Komisarjevsky, co-author with his wife Reina of Peanut Butter and Jelly Management (Amacom; $17), agreed with Gump. Says Chris: "Remember it's a vacation for the kids. That's different from a vacation for adults without children--which, of course, you should also take." That I knew already...
...Graham's newest movie makes clever use of its title-Graham is both extremely attached to her husband and does a short stint in an insane asylum. She plays Joline, a New York club owner with a heart of gold. Joline leads a blessed life (as if you didn't already know this) and she is known as a woman who never ever goes back on her word. When Joline's husband Carl (Luke Wilson), a photojournalist whose employer is limiting him to culinary photography, leaves her with the only clue to his whereabouts-a postcard with a cactus...
...really excited," beams Harvard Coach Joe Walsh, who coached Forst and Hill at different points in his successful five-year stint with the Crimson. "I've got close friends in professional baseball who have worn the Harvard uniform. It's a great tribute, both to the program and the school...
Alvarez's current job is quite a bit different from the profession she started in upon leaving college. After graduation, Alvarez became a reporter for the New York Post, working there for four years. She then moved into television journalism in New York City for seven years, a stint which won her an Associated Press award and Emmy nomination for reporting she did on the war in El Salvador...