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BIRD: The influence of Russian iconography is plain in Bird's martyred expression...
Corzine has yet to master public speaking or the nuances of public policy, but he has emerged as more than a human checkbook. A mix of Mister Rogers and Warren Buffett, he talks softly and lives simply in a plain house in Summit. He earned his money the old-fashioned, pre-dotcom way, as one of the most successful, nerves-of-steel bond traders in Wall Street history. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Illinois and a former Marine, he worked his way through the University of Chicago's business school and up the ladder at Goldman...
With my younger son humoring me because it was Father's Day, I ventured into a store that sells running shoes. Now, I grew up in a plain Keds generation: choice between white or dark blue. I considered the blue to be pretty unorthodox. So it was in white Keds as a boy that I played tennis, yachted and stole hubcaps...
...Actually, some people can definitely benefit from using the stronger soaps. If you're handling bodily fluids, or working around contagious patients, or changing diapers, for example, you might want to consider using an antibacterial cleanser. But for most of us, plain old soap and water will do the trick...
...Mahoney '00, McLain's vice chair, will also be taking a two-year McKinsey post. As with his classmate, the decades of debate characterizing federal politics as corrupt, inefficient or just plain evil has taken its toll...