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Nannygate. It is a fortysomething issue, so it makes the column. Did the Clinton team think a honeymoon is uninterrupted, or was someone inhaling at the point of the background check? Is the public outrage because a potential attorney general violated immigration laws, or because a couple making $600,000 paid so little in wages? Or was it backlash at the name Zoe? And why did Kimba take a fall for acting within the law? For those who did not follow the Milken case, she is one tough, smart judge. She deserved better than being dumped at the first rise in temperature.

Gary Dicovitsky passed along a couple of quick notes. Joe Leslie is at the University of New Hampshire, where he heads up the dorm advisors program. At the other end of the frozen North, Tim McKeever is in Anchorage, Alaska, practicing law. Together they have a combined winter wind-chill close to absolute zero. Relevance of that last comment to this column is also close to absolute zero.

Jesse Spikes has been named to the board of Agnes Scott College. Jesse is a partner in the Atlanta law firm of Long, Aldritch & Norman. In his spare time Jesse is also the chairman of the Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections, has been named to 100 Black Men of Atlanta, and is an advisoryboard member of the Atlanta Organizing Committee and the Georgia Amateur Athletic Foundation. My guess is that the former hurdler and advisor to Evander Holyfield will play a prominent role in the next summer Olympics. If I've guessed wrong, Atlanta will have blown it.

For those who vilified the newsletter about ten years ago for glorifying the days of our youth well spent in following football, women, and beer, I present one Jim Coakley. Jim is the vice president in charge of business development at Pedone & Partners Inc. in New York, an advertising agency. After a four-month review, Genesee Brewing awarded its $5 million account to Pedone over two other finalists. Who can tell what great thoughts have been brewed over a Saturday-night keg and when they might pay off? The ad campaign should be underway by now.

Marathon man Eric Potter hits the news. Associate director for geological science technology at Marathon Oil (appropriate company), Eric won the 1992 Explorer Oil price contest, wherein AAPG members guessed at the price of a barrel of oil on the last trading day of 1992. Eric's scientific method was to use $19.50, the year he was born. Honest. As Casey would say, "You can look it up" (in the AAPG Explorer, February 1993). I guess any of you could have won that one.

Weasel, have you been ducking my calls? Please scrounge up some news, Left Coast or otherwise, and send a guest column. To the executive committee members, I will be after you soon. To the rest, send your requests to the Lost Classmate Hot Line.

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