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...only one unhappy is Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. She lured the Washington-savvy Eizenstat from the Commerce Department two years ago to grab back some control of international economic policy, which the State Department had ceded to other agencies. Since then, State and Treasury have fought a turf war behind the scenes over control of Washington's response to the Asian financial crisis and Russia's economic bailout. Summers will now have Eizenstat under his wing, instead of having him as a Foggy Bottom competitor. The player trade "wasn't Madeleine's first choice," said a senior White House...
Guard Mike Shreve, All-Ivy First Team last season, was one of the more outwardly exuberant of the lot--"We've got tons of time to booze it!" he informed his former teammates as they sweated on the turf...
Guard Mike Shreve, All-Ivy First Team last season, was one of the more outwardly exuberant of the lot--"We've got tons of time to booze it!" he informed his former teammates as they sweated on the turf...
...Suburban mania coincided with the swell in popularity of the game of golf--and what a swell game golf is! The development of golf and of the turf covering the courses where it is played (which the government has donated millions of dollars to help improve), go hand in hand. In 1897, a senior researcher at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, linked closely with the U.S. Golf Association, wrote the following influential words: "Nothing is more beautiful than a well-kept lawn . . . Lawns are the most fascinating and delightful features in landscape gardening, and there is nothing which more strongly...
...Suburban mania coincided with the swell in popularity of the game of golf--and what a swell game golf is! The development of golf and of the turf covering the courses where it is played (which the government has donated millions of dollars to help improve), go hand in hand. In 1897, a senior researcher at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, linked closely with the U.S. Golf Association, wrote the following influential words: "Nothing is more beautiful than a well-kept lawn . . . Lawns are the most fascinating and delightful features in landscape gardening, and there is nothing which more strongly...