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...fans are likely to hold youthful sins against Moe. "I was not the smartest or the best student," he said of his marijuana-smoking days. "I was out having a good time, being a normal American kid." But when the ski team suspended him at 16, his father, a contractor, hauled him up to the Aleutian Islands for a summer of 16-hour workdays. "He shoveled gravel," recalled Tom Sr. "He crawled on all fours." Moe Jr. straightened out. Since then he has put in six grueling years on the World Cup circuit, racing from one mountain to another...
...subjected to a relentless stream of noise coming from the fans at the biology labs," she wrote in a letter to Vice President and General Counsel Margaret H. Marshall last November. "The level of nighttime noise, as measured by both City of Cambridge and by Harvard's private acoustical contractor, exceeds legal limits...
...relentless stream of noise coming from the fans at the biology labs," Ms. Walter wrote in a letter to Vice President and General Counsel Margaret H. Marshall last November. "The level of nighttime noise, as measured by both the City of Cambridge and by Harvard's private acoustical contractor, exceeds legal limits...
...envision any wide-scale switch away from full-time workers," counters Altman, "and trying to game the system by making full-timers independent contractors won't work. If you get 80% of your income from a single source, you can't qualify as an independent contractor under IRS rules, so you'd be covered for health care by the employer mandate." Yes, says Senate Finance Committee chief of staff Lawrence O'Donnell, "the IRS forbids tax dodging of any kind -- but taxes are avoided just the same. The Administration thinks its health plan outfoxes every conniving operator out there...
...plots. In any case, Inman said, "I am not a very good No. 2, so my year at the Defense Intelligence Agency and my 18 months at the CIA were not the happier times of my career." In the 1980s he headed a computer-technology venture and a defense-contractor company in Austin, Texas. Neither was a great success, but no one blamed him. Now he wants to bring the "best business practices" to the Pentagon...