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...once derived from the pinetree resin harvested there. The 29,000 acres of this plantation belong to Charlie Croker, 60, a high-stakes Atlanta real estate developer with a second wife 32 years his junior and an arthritic knee, a relic from his days of playing football for Georgia Tech. Among his many earthly possessions, Turpmtine is by far Charlie's most cherished; he sees it as a validation not of his wealth but of something deeper: "You had to be man enough to deserve a quail plantation." In fact, some of Charlie's older servants at Turpmtine remember...
...nickname he picked up at Morehouse College, Roger Too White, reflected his disdain for all the campus talk about black separatism. But his old Morehouse friend and fraternity brother Wesley Dobbs Jordan is now the mayor of Atlanta. That connection explains why Roger is asked to represent Georgia Tech's All-American running back, Fareek ("the Cannon") Fannon...
Right about here this roller coaster of a novel starts to get really complicated, especially ethically. The proposal Roger White, at Mayor Jordan's behest, brings to Charlie boils down to this: get acquainted with the Cannon, talk over your shared experiences as Georgia Tech football stars, and then appear at a press conference to say that Fareek is a fine young man, charged with no crime, and that everybody should just simmer down...
...severe slowdown doesn't hit? What if the Fed won't let it happen and moves aggressively to cut rates? Then Wall Street will have created the same sort of bargains that it does when it occasionally unloads drug stocks because of potential government regulation, or when it shuns tech stocks because a high-profile semiconductor or software company stumbles...
...party to more than $400,000 in the 1997-98 election cycle. Coincidentally, about that time, 10 Republican Senators signed a "Dear Colleague" letter criticizing the CLINTON Administration for subjecting the software industry to "needless regulation through overzealous enforcement of antitrust" laws. "We must protect our high-tech industry's freedom to innovate," said the Oct. 12 letter, copying Microsoft's p.r. machine practically verbatim. While the letter was circulating, CEO BILL GATES appeared in North Carolina with one of his most vocal Senate defenders, LAUCH FAIRCLOTH, who is locked in a squeaker of a race. Gates didn't endorse...