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...MIDWAY THROUGH SAM GWYNNE'S VARIED CAREER -- French teacher, international banker, prizewinning correspondent -- he and his wife Katie became temporary workers: royalties from Sam's 1986 book, Selling Money, had run out, and they , needed some income while looking for permanent employment. Gwynne worked briefly as a "production assistant" on a TV commercial (his job: raking and reraking sand on a beach to smooth it out after strollers had walked by) and as a secretary at Southern California Gas Co. Sam vividly remembers the unnerving insecurity that helped inspire this week's stories on temporary workers: "No health insurance...
Brown (7-16 overall, 2-9 Ivy) briefly controlled the game midway through the second half with a 15-4 tear that put the Bears ahead 57-50. Harvard (5-18, 2-9) worked back into the game with Brown's free-throw woes...
First, trading Brown by 15 points midway through the second half at Briggs Cage, the Crimson--a notoriously poor catch up team--staged a thrilling rally to briefly overtake the Bears...
...Game five against the Indiana Pacers '91: Bird began the game with a bad back. In the second quarter, he took a header off the floor, and left the game. Midway through the third, with the team struggling, Bird came running out of the lockerroom while taking off his warmup jacket. The Garden went crazy. Larry actually looked like Superman. He sparked the sagging Celtics, hit some clutch shots, and led the team to victory...
Still, he made enough of a reputation for himself that in 1991 he was wooed by both the Bob Kerrey and Clinton campaigns. Stephanopoulos recalls the instant rapport that he felt during his first meeting with Clinton pollster Stan Greenberg. "Midway through the interview," says Stephanopoulos, "I started working...