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...Many hockey insiders are frustrated. "Quite frankly, I don't believe people know what Versus is, and I still don't know what they do," says Chicago Blackhawks chairman Rocky Wirtz, whose team will face the winner of the Detroit-Anaheim series in the Western Conference finals (broadcast on Versus, of course). The players' union has already griped about getting back on ESPN, but that's not happening anytime soon. The NHL and Versus are stuck with each other through 2011. So enjoy tonight's Game 7. Just get ready to climb up the dial...
...their favorite vices: coffee, cigarettes and politics. A generation ago, smoke-filled establishments like these were hotbeds of debate about environmental catastrophes and the risk of nuclear war. But the patrons' obsessions have grown slightly more mundane. "The tax system here is driving us all to hell," says Max Wirtz, 37, the owner of an event-management agency. "Everything is too regulated." His friend Matthias, 37, nods in agreement and says what attracted him to the conservative Christian Democratic Party was a radical idea: a flat tax. "I wasn't thinking of voting for them up to that point...
...have been rich to support his disciples." May Jakes put his emphasis on the plain preaching of the Gospel of Christ rather than on "ornate call-and-response cues and dramatic eruptions." Have we not had enough disappointments from those wealthy televangelist preachers of the 1980s? L. HOYT GRIFFITH Wirtz...
Dealers of course hope that clients will buy more through them and less at auction. Collectors, says gallery owner Howard Read, prefer "a relationship with someone they know and can trust." Stephen Wirtz of San Francisco's Stephen Wirtz Gallery thinks the harm will be done by a free-floating unease. "Whenever there is some kind of seemingly blatant dishonesty, people will probably want to sell less at auction," he says...
Robert Caro, now at work on the second volume of his definitive biography of Lyndon Johnson, says the historical record abruptly changes in the early 1940s, when people began to rely on the telephone more than the mail. "Through Johnson's detailed correspondence with his patron Alvin Wirtz and others, you could trace the most intricate deals and such matters as his stormy relationship with Sam Rayburn," says Caro. "Then, at a crucial moment, just when you want to know what someone is thinking, you'll run into a telegram or note saying 'Phone me tonight.' That's when...