Newsmakers

QUOTE/UNQUOTE "There could be no worse or uglier irony than to have a monument for 'Honest Abe' wind up being a gigantic public works project on which a bunch of political insiders wind up lining their pockets." —U.S. SENATOR PETER FITZGERALD '82 (R-ILL.) ON C-SPAN, LEADING A FILIBUSTER TO STYMIE THE PROPOSED $115 MILLION LINCOLN PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY

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legacy is likely to be the switch from hardware to help, according to a June 11 frontpage story in The Wall Street Journal. In 1999 IBM sold a unit that makes computer-network gear to Cisco in exchange for $300 million and a five-year Cisco commitment to buy $2 billion in IBM computer chips and a promise to recommend IBM to its customers for installation and consulting services. The swap has proved strategic: IBM has vaulted to the No. 1 spot in networking services, with more than $3 billion in sales lastyear....Comedy writers New British Columbia premier Gordon Campbell '70 has a poster in his office that reads: "Think Like a Taxpayer." That slogan is appropriate sentiment for the provinces first Liberal premier in almost 50 years. The mayor of Vancouver for six years, Campbell swept into the top office of Canada's third largest province in May on a platform of tax reform and fiscal responsibility. His next challenge: Fulfilling promises to impose a "dramatic" income tax cut, declare education an essential service and end business subsidies. "It's kind of like climbing a mountain," says Campbell, who scaled Kilimanjaro in 1999 to help raise funds for Alzheimer's research. "To get to the top, you're going to go through some tough times."...These days, Big Blue is about big services, not just big boxes. As Louis Gerstner '63 prepares to step down after eight years at the helm of IBM, his lines as chief of the civil rights section of the U.S. attorneys office in L.A., most recently when he prosecuted a white supremacist who fatally shot a Filipino American postal worker and left five people seriously wounded at a Jewish community center in 1999....Tw0 national magazines recently sported alumni cover writers Chris Miller' 97 and Phil Lord '97 are redrawing high school life with their animated series Clone High,USA. The comedy is set at a high school for clones of dead celebs ranging from Abe Lincoln to Elvis. The comedy team dreamed up the series premise, wrote the pilot script and will executive produce it. "We had an idea about the clones of famous people being roommates in college," says Miller. "But Phil though it would be funnier if they were in high school—they'd be more angst-ridden. And then genius was born." MTV has bought 13 episodes and they are scheduled to air next summer ....Attorney Michael Gennaco '75 will be leaving the courtroom and heading for the police station in an effort to help one of the country's largest law enforcement agencies police itself better. He will head the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Departments new Office of Independent Review, a widely anticipated move toward police reform following the LAPD's Rampart corruption scandal. Gennaco has made head- girls. In the April issue of Backpacker magazine Megan Currier '97 appeared at 13,000 feet on Treasure Mountain near her home in Carbondale, Colorado. The shot of the third-grade teacher and former president of the Dartmouth Outing Club was taken by husband Tyler Stableford '96, photo editor itor.of Climbing Magazine. U.S. kayaking team member Dana Chladek '85 appeared on the June cover of Smithsonian magazine, in a photo of her paddling to a bronze medal in the women's slalom singles event at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. (She went on to win a silver medal in the same event at the 1996 Games.) The magazine article kicks off a national tour of a related exhibition and the launch of a book called GameFace: What Does a Female Athlete Look Like? (Random House)... .Hanover, New Hampshire, made the cover of Money magazine as one of the "Best Places to Retire in the U.S." In its July issue Money gave Hanover top marks in several key categories, including first-class cultural attractions and proximity to popular recreational activities.The article quoted retiree Joe Medlicott '50 saying: "This is a place for an active retirement. I'm outside as much as I can possibly be." Read up on what makes Hanover hot at www.money.com/money/bestplaces/bpretire.... Award-winning editorial cartoonist SteveKelley '81 has put down his pen, at least temporariy. He was fired from The San DiegoUnion-Tribune after a dispute with high-level editors over the handling of a cartoon. In a Union-Tribune story, Kelley said the dispute arose when an editor rejected a draft of a cartoon, which Kelley then revised and left with a page designer. The cartoonist said he was later accused of trying to sneak the cartoon into the newspaper. "[Senior editor Bill Osborne] called my character into question and I responded indelicately," says Kelley. As he mulled offers from other papers, Kelley was still showing up on the UnionTribune's pages—in articles touting his recent Southern California Journalism Award and his efforts as master of ceremonies at the Del Mar flower show.

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Contributors: Michael Glenzer 'O1 and RandyStebbins '01