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Cooke's divestiture came at the end of three bitter years of exile from the teams he once ran with the glee of a small boy on Christmas morning. He fled to Nevada in a vain attempt to escape California's community property laws during an acrimonious divorce and, suffering from a heart ailment, lost touch with his clubs. In his heyday, Cooke made the trades (Wilt Chamberlain, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar), picked the draft choices, coached the coaches and chastised waiters in the Forum Club restaurant for allowing a guest's water glass to remain empty...
...student demonstrators who had occupied the building. More than 75 students were injured in the raid, and an appalled University came together for a momentous nine-day strike--nine days of the most dynamic political activity this University has seen. Just as the police bust was the last vain attempt of the Harvard administration to restore its own vision of a Harvard that had quite simply ceased to exist, the strike that followed it marked a startling new beginning for students at this school--proof that students can make themselves heard, even in the massive bureaucracy at the center...
...breed." Georgians Hamilton Jordan and Jody Powell, says Fallows, cultivate the laid-back style of "cool guys getting the job done without trying too hard or taking it all too seriously." One of the few to win a favorable notice is National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, "high-strung and vain," but also "the one among Carter's senior associates who tried every day to test the limits of his job and come up with new ideas...
...them as he can and them tried to break away gently. Neither can tightly be called a leader of the avant garde. Reed is tired out, and though his work may point the way for others, his days of leadership are over. Smith has forfeited her leadership in a vain attempt to pretty her music up for the mass market...
...obsession: to become a policeman. He studied police science at Monroe Community College in New York but dropped out before finishing. He tried to find a job as a policeman in up state New York and failed. When he moved to Los Angeles in 1975, he sought, again in vain, for police jobs while living with his cousin, Angelo Buono, 44. Finally, Bianchi got a position at a land title company, but he pretended to colleagues that he was an undercover cop on the side. He carried an attache case in which he kept a phony highway patrol...