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...clear the Tommy's experience, for better or worse, will never be quite the same. Though its reincarnation was as unheralded as its untimely death, the new Tommy's has been drawing crowds since its reopening, according to firsthand eyewitness accounts and new owner Richard Vernon...
...ambiance that I'm trying to maintain here is that of a hangout. I encourage people to come in and chew the fat," Vernon said. "People can still sit and have a little quiet, and at the same time it's clean...
Tommy's Lunch closed its doors November 22, when Stephanian sold the restaurant to Vernon, an experienced restaurant operator and two partners...
...some ways, the Baird nomination was troubled from the start. The first indications from Bill and Hillary Clinton were that they wanted to appoint Vernon Jordan to the Attorney General's post. A flurry of press articles questioning Jordan's ties to a tobacco company, capped by a searing editorial in the New York Times, persuaded Jordan to remove his name from consideration. Aides then leaked word that Clinton sought a female appointee -- a move that in effect devalued the post to affirmative-action status...
...Baird did not share the populist instincts of campaign advisers like Carville and Paul Begala. Even according to officials who participated in the Baird case, it is not surprising that high-paid, high-powered corporate lawyers did not see trouble coming. When Clinton put millionaire superlawyers Warren Christopher and Vernon Jordan in charge of his transition, he laid the foundation for Baird's destruction. "What happened here," said a transition official, "was that a lot of people who live in million-dollar houses and think nothing of hiring illegals were in charge of the process...