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...Harvard's Whiz Kids, however, no player has had as big an impact as freshman right fielder Brett Vankoski...

Author: By Jason E. Kolman, | Title: Freshman Vankoski Hitting Pretty for Harvard Baseball | 4/20/1995 | See Source »

...making his case, however, Clinton was not helped by the fact that he entrusted the job of winning votes in Congress to ex-Wall Street whiz and newly appointed Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin. The former co-chairman of Goldman Sachs knew many of Mexico's leading industrialists (his business contacts included Telefonos de Mexico; cement giant Cemex; and Banco National de Mexico, the country's largest bank). But after two years as head of Clinton's National Economic Council, Rubin knew little about lobbying Capitol Hill. Although Treasury had prepared a state-by-state analysis of how a Mexican meltdown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DON'T PANIC: HERE COMES BAILOUT BILL | 2/13/1995 | See Source »

During his undergraduate years at Columbia, Elkies focused more on research. Wait a minute--Columbia? What made this math whiz choose New York's pale imitation of Harvard? "Poor judgment?" says Elkies, by way of explanation. "I was glad I was able to finish in only three years...

Author: By Dantel Altman, | Title: Math and Music | 2/9/1995 | See Source »

...year-old British computer whiz spent seven months tapping into U.S. defense computers -- including eavesdropping on secret U.S. communications over the North Korean nuclear crisis last spring -- and then posted classified messages on the Internet, London's Independent newspaper reported today. The paper said the teenager, known as "Datastream" among Internet users, was finally nabbed by U.S. investigators last July because he left his terminal connected to an American defense computer overnight. (Prosecutors will decide this month whether they can charge him, the paper said.) Said another British hacker, who told the Independent he'd seen Datastream's postings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NETWATCH . . . U.S. HACKED OFF AT U.K. HACKER | 1/3/1995 | See Source »

...fated not to do well from the beginning. Acquired as a unit of GE Capital, a major provider of financial services, Kidder represented a plunge into brokerage and investment banking fields that GE knew little about. Scandal struck soon after the deal was completed when former Kidder merger whiz Martin Siegel pleaded guilty to illegal stock trading and tax evasion in a case that broke open Wall Street's most notorious insider- trading ring. This year Kidder has witnessed not only another huge scam but a swift run-up in interest rates that has battered the firm's portfolio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview with Jack Welch: Jack in the Box | 10/3/1994 | See Source »

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