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Morning comes early in a stranger's bed, it's never quite as easy when you're straight...
After the race, Bill Berkeley sat on a cot in the basement of the Prudential and talked quietly of what the Marathon had meant to him. Berkeley was no stranger to the 26 miles and 385 yards between Hopkinton's town green and the recovery room he and hundreds of others like him were resting in--he had tried the year before in the near-intolerable heat. He didn't make it in 1976, stopping after 17 miles. So Berkeley had hoped his second shot would erase that memory. "I didn't do anything but pass people...
...have brought out in him one of those religious personalities William James called 'twice-born'... His novels seem to be essentially the self-determination of a religious personality, of a seeker who after being ejected from the expected and conventional order of things has come to himself as a stranger in the world...
...Carter Administration reportedly considered naming Pitofsky to head the Federal Trade Commission but then counted him out, perhaps, says a colleague, because of his "professorial air." Though undeniably a professor-he teaches antitrust and consumer law-Pitofsky is certainly no stranger to the FTC, having served from 1970 to 1972 as chief of its Bureau of Consumer Protection. As a teacher, Pitofsky favors the adversary system. Assigning a pair of students to each side of a lawsuit, Pitofsky gives them 30 days to prepare their arguments and then grills them on the law. Law students, says Pitofsky...
...wife of an FBI agent: "My view of sex is the same, but now I say 'Thank you' when he opens a door, rather than just take him for granted. In fact, I try to be as nice to him as I would be to a stranger...