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...Crusaders evened the score at 1-1 when freshman midfielder Matt Ney gained possession of a cross from senior teammate Nicholas Vuono and pushed it pass Harvard goalkeeper Mike Meagher at the 73:07 mark...
...according to its brochure, "the greatest corporate assemblage of military expertise in the world." With 160 full-time employees and some 2,000 retired generals, admirals and other officers on call, it is making a fair claim. Among its most prominent executives are retired four-star General Carl Vuono, who ran the Army during Desert Storm and now heads the company's growing overseas business, and Crosbie ("Butch") Saint, who was once the chief of the Army's operations in Europe and who oversees MPRI's work there. This is the outfit that the U.S. will probably turn...
...MPRI's role in Croatia is limited to classroom instruction on military-civil relations and doesn't involve training in tactics or weapons. Other U.S. military men say whatever MPRI did for the Croats--and many suspect more than classroom instruction was involved--it was worth every penny. "Carl Vuono and Butch Saint are hired guns and in it for the money," says Charles Boyd, a recently retired four-star Air Force general who was the Pentagon's No. 2 man in Europe until July. "They did a very good job for the Croats, and I have no doubt they...
...case, Simpson could use an influx of cash. The best source of that, experts say, may be for him to encamp on the margins of celebrity: O.J. could sell his story to magazines and tabloids and peddle his autograph at card shows. Frank Vuono, president and CEO of Integrated Sports International, which handles a score of pro football players, says Simpson could probably demand a six-figure sum from card-show organizers. "He's a novelty," says Vuono. "I imagine you'll see O.J. Websites and O.J. collectibles and all sorts of stuff. That's the crazy world we live...
Simpson's career as a legitimate sports commentator or a product pitchman, even in this numbed, post-Tonya Harding age, may be over. Fox, for one, has stated publicly that it won't hire him. "Athletes in the past have transcended the race issue," says Vuono. "That's the beauty of sports. But O.J.'s case has polarized people...