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DEEP in the musty catacombs of the Skull and Bones mausoleum, beneath the deteriorated remains and cufflinks of William Buckley, a rat raced over a stack of crumbling copies of the Yale Daily News. The top copy, the 1989 Year in Review/Swimsuit issue, was knocked off and opened to the comics page. Scrawled into the margins with the blood of nubile young oarsmen was a list of the secret cabal's top news events of the year. The Crimson's crack squad of investigative reporters/archaeologists, fresh from a screening of "Rambo XXIII: Rambo Meets Indiana Jones" starring Mike Tyson...
...loss was due less to the abilities and ideology of his Democratic opponent, state Attorney General Joseph Lieberman, than to the his being abandoned and ostracized by the conservative wing of Connecticut's Republican Party, which has never been thrilled by his outspokenly liberal views. In fact, William F. Buckley Jr. and other prominent conservatives in the state bankrolled Lieberman's campaign and made it explicit that they were doing so in order to pave the way for a politician with appropriate conservative credentials to defeat Lieberman...
Then came the challenge of getting the plant built and operating within all the constraints imposed by licensing authorities. Buckley and his partners in the Williams River Electric Corp., founded for this project, decided to buy the turbine and generator set and control equipment from China, where they got the best price...
Between the problems of threading the regulatory maze and the mechanical difficulties, the project has been a cliffhanger for Buckley and Alexander Hadden, a co-investor whom Buckley credits with seeing the enterprise through. "Without his strength and determination," he says, "I don't know if I would have stuck with it." For Hadden it has been a matter of common sense. "It's crazy not to use this power that's freely available and does no harm to the environment...
Outside the powerhouse, near the dam, Buckley beams. He is hearing his favorite sound. Despite all his reservations about the bureaucratic process, he is upbeat. "They've taken a lot of the fun out of it," he says quietly, watching the black water roiling into white foam as it cascades over the steep rock cataract, "but it's still definitely worth doing...