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Desperation leads to strange decisions. Despite my previous lab experience, when I found a job opening in a fly lab at Rockefeller University, I jumped at the chance. Any job would be better than three months of sitting at home with daytime TV (shudder). So, despite having sworn never to don a lab coat again, I steadied my resolve, and again picked up the pipette...
Though there's no shortlist yet, names under review by the White House counsel's office include U.S. Attorney Robert Mueller of San Francisco, who assisted Ashcroft until Deputy Attorney General Larry Thompson was sworn in last week; George Terwilliger, No. 2 at Justice in the first Bush Administration and a lawyer for W. during the Florida recount; Stephen Trott, a federal appellate judge and former Reagan Administration Justice Department official; and Ronald Noble, who currently leads Interpol. Choosing Noble, an African American, would help silence criticism that the bureau remains a conservative-white-male bastion...
...Zell Miller, a conservative maverick Democrat from Georgia, has been courted by Republicans practically from the day he was sworn in last January. Texas Republican Sen. Phil Gramm got Miller to sign onto George W. Bush's mega-tax cut, and, ever since, Gramm has been trying to sweet talk Miller into becoming a Republican. Press speculation became white hot several weeks ago that Miller was about to jump ship. The speculators apparently were ahead of Miller, who adamantly denies he was mulling a switch. "I don't want to talk about it!" Miller barked when I cornered him with...
...second half was just as good as the first. The group’s insistence on two-way participation between stage and audience was truly infectious, and in the gorgeous acoustics of the Hall, the effect was awe-inspiring. At one point I could have sworn I even heard the not-quite-elderly gentleman sitting next to me humming along and possibly foot-tapping, though that may have been the moshing five-year-old on the other side of me. The addition of some African-style shakers to the sound pushed the energy level even higher. I lost count...
...students who have sworn to remain in Mass. Hall indefinitely and the administrators who quietly left their offices seem to have reached a standstill-with no visible end in sight...