Word: weeks
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...keen to move to D.C., joked to TIME recently that he was "looking for lottery numbers so I can tell the Governor to 'Go to hell.'") Bush's alter ego, Don Evans, a friend going back 25 years, will probably be Commerce Secretary. And there was talk last week of recruiting Dallas Cowboy great and Annapolis grad Roger Staubach to be Secretary of the Navy...
Boies' certifying moment in the mythology of this particular generation came on Nov. 20, one week after he arrived in Florida. Emerging from his first oral arguments before the state supreme court, he stood in a room off the state senate chamber and presided over a press conference with a virtuosity news cameras hadn't seen since General Norman Schwarzkopf's famous briefing at the end of the Gulf War. As Boies carefully articulated the Vice President's positions in a Midwestern rasp--he grew up in small-town Illinois--his hands, a foot or so apart, moved...
When he enrolled at the University of Redlands and learned that classes consumed only 14 hours a week, Boies set out to fill the extra time. Although he was married with two children by the end of his sophomore year, he piled on more work (teaching journalism at a nearby mental hospital), then more fun (usually card playing) and more extracurriculars (including, George W. Bush would be surprised to learn, the presidency of the campus Young Republicans). He also added more classes, finishing three years' study in two years. He then took off for law school at Northwestern. James...
...months they directed their top executives to endure hundreds of hours of interrogation in Room No. 385 of the Federal Trade Commission building in Washington, and why they showered thousands of proprietary documents on their inquisitors. And it's exactly why they faxed, on the eve of last week's FTC vote, the final written concession that led to unanimous approval of the $112 billion marriage between Case's America Online and Levin's Time Warner...
...cable. Then a roster of instant-messaging companies charged that AOL was preventing any competitor's messages from penetrating AOL's proprietary IM architecture. By the fall, when AOL Time Warner had initially estimated they would close the deal, "the FTC was hitting us with a new issue every week," says an insider...