[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 18]
[Senate]
[Pages 27206-27207]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                     CONFIRMATION OF GLENN A. FINE

  Mr. KOHL. Mr. President, I want to applaud the Senate's confirmation 
today of Glenn Fine, who will truly be an outstanding Inspector General 
at the Department of Justice. As you know, the Inspector General is 
charged with investigating waste, fraud, abuse and corruption. As such, 
it is a position of critical importance that we needed to fill as soon 
as possible--and I'm glad we did so before adjournment--to ensure 
accountable and effective oversight of the DOJ.
  Mr. Fine has been dealing with corruption ever since the Harvard-
Boston College basketball game on December 16, 1978, in which he scored 
19 points and had 14 assists--perhaps his best performance in college--
only to discover later that this particular game was part of a 
notorious point-shaving scandal. No doubt this first-hand experience 
drove him in his later quest to weed out corruption at the Department 
of Justice.
  I ask unanimous consent that two related articles be included in the 
Record immediately following the conclusion of my remarks.
  More seriously, though, Mr. Fine has served in a variety of 
professional roles and always in an exemplary fashion. He is currently 
the Acting Inspector General, and previously, he served as the Director 
of the Special Investigations and Review Unit in the Department of 
Justice's Office of the Inspector General, supervised a variety of 
sensitive internal investigations, including the FBI's handling of the 
Aldrich Ames case. He also worked as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the 
District of Columbia, where he prosecuted more than 35 criminal jury 
trials. His academic credentials are stellar as well. He is a Rhodes 
Scholar and he was graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School. 
Finally, though this is a political appointment, Mr. Fine is non-
partisan--exactly the type of appointee that a Republican President 
might very well consider keeping on. He worked as an Assistant U.S. 
Attorney during the Reagan and Bush administrations, and has never been 
involved in a political campaign.
  I'm pleased that Congress recognized the importance of the Inspector 
General of the Department of Justice by filling the position before 
adjourning. An individual as outstanding as Mr. Fine certainly merited 
prompt confirmation.

            [From the Boston Herald American, Dec. 19, 1978]

                      An Authentic Student-Athlete

       It was a crazy week, an impossible week, but somehow Glenn 
     Fine survived.

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       On Tuesday night the Harvard basketball co-captain played a 
     game against Dartmouth then caught a plane to Philadelphia. 
     On Wednesday, the former Cheltenham High School athlete went 
     through Rhodes Scholarship interviews then rushed back to 
     Boston. There was a game against Wagner College the next 
     night.
       Harvard lost, Glenn Fine had nine turnovers. He was upset. 
     Very upset.
       On Friday, he was getting ready to fly to Baltimore for a 
     reception and more interviews when Frank McLaughlin, the 
     Harvard coach, asked him to stop in the office.
       What did you think of the game last night? McLaughlin asked 
     him.
       ``It was all my fault,'' the player replied.
       ``Wait a minute,'' McLaughlin told him. ``You've been 
     traveling all week. You've got a cold. You're a Rhodes 
     finalist. How can you blame yourself?''
       But Glenn Fine could. And he did. That's the way he is.
       ``He's unbelievably intense. McLaughlin knew. ``He's a 
     perfectionist.''


                             Toughest test

       And the most difficult test of all was still ahead of him. 
     His bid for a Rhodes Scolarship was in the final stages. More 
     interviews. More pressures. And Harvard had a baskeball game 
     against Boston College on Saturday night.
       ``They (the Rodes people) let me go at 3 p.m. Saturday.'' 
     Fine said ``I rushed to the airport. Mr. George Piszek (of 
     the Mrs. Paul's frozen foods Piszeks) let me have an 
     airplane, a Lear jet. We got to Boston and the state police 
     were waiting. They rushed me to the Garden at 7:00 for a 7:15 
     game.''
       You wonder how anybody could play a basketball game under 
     those circumstances. Here he was, worrying about the Rhodes. 
     Had he handled himself all right? Had he said the right 
     things?
       And suddently there was a game to play. ``I got to the 
     Garden and the adrenalin took over.'' Glenn said ``Playing 
     before all those people . . .''
       The adrenalin must have serged through all 5 feet, 9\3/4\ 
     inches of Glenn Fine, because he threw in 19 points and 
     handed off 14 assists in a tough three-point defeat.
       The week he called, ``one of the most gruelling of my 
     life'' was over, except for one last call to find out how the 
     other, even tougher competition had come out.
       Still wearing his Harvard basketball uniform, he walked 
     into the corridor and found a phone booth. People were 
     milling around, drinking beer, laughing. ``Oh my God,'' a man 
     howled, ``it's the guy from Harvard. Say hello to . . .
       Finally, Fine tore himself away, and placed the phone call.
       ``Hello, this is Gleen Fine.''
       ``Well, Mr. Fine. Congratulations.''
       He had won.
       The term ``student-athlete'' keeps popping up in the NCAA 
     handbook. So often it's a hollow term; pro teams are filled 
     with former ``student-athletes'' who neglected to graduate. 
     But sometimes a Glenn Fine happens along to give it meaning.
       ``He seems so relaxed now,'' Frank McLaughlin was saying 
     yesterday. ``Maybe he feels he's proved himself. He's a 
     Rhodes scholar now. His whole life he's been knocked. `You're 
     too small. You can't do this. You can't do that.' But now 
     he's gotten recognition.''


                             It can be done

       This young man from Melrose Park is a better advertisement 
     for college athletics than many of the All-Americans, many of 
     the high draft choices. He proved that somebody who isn't 
     quite 5 feet, 10 inches tall can play quality basketball. And 
     he proved as such past Rhodes winners as Penn's John Wideman, 
     Princeton's Bill Bradley, Columbia's Heyward Dotson and 
     Yale's Mike Orstaglio and Jim McGuire proved before him that 
     full commitment to college basketball and classwork is 
     possible.
       ``Basketball was very important to me in terms of growth, 
     shaping my character,'' Glenn said. ``Just the fact that I'm 
     small, playing in a big man's game showed me the value of 
     determination, how to overcome adversity.''
       ``I think everyone had reservations about Glenn Fine based 
     on his size.'' Penn Coach Bob Weinbaner said, ``but some kids 
     overcome that. We tried to recruit him real hard. He's a 
     super kid. A super kid.''
       He's what college athletics are, or at least should be, all 
     about.
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        [From Harvard Varsity Club Sports Review, Dec. 20, 1978]

                          Basketball--The Men

                           (By John Ledecky)

       At first, you couldn't tell most of the Harvard hoopsters 
     without a scorecard, but their exciting brand of a fast-break 
     offense and tenacious defense have quickly made them 
     household names in phase two of the Frank McLaughlin era in 
     Cambridge.
       Three veterans comprise the nucleus of a squad dominated by 
     underclassmen. Co-captain Glenn Fine (Cheltenham, Pa.) has 
     picked up where he left off last season, leading the Crimson 
     in assists and steals while averaging 11 points per contest. 
     The flashy All-Ivy playmaker had 19 points, 14 assists and 
     eight steals against undefeated Boston College--and on the 
     same day also won the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship to 
     Oxford!
       Fellow senior co-captain Bob Hooft (Winnemucca, Nv.) 
     continues his ``Mr. Steady'' role, occupying the second-
     leading scorer slot (12.3 ppg.) on the squad for the third 
     straight season. Harvard's top scorer is the other returning 
     letterwinner--and lone junior--Bob Allen (Thomaston, Ct.), 
     who had a career-high 26 points in Harvard's first win of the 
     campaign against Bentlay. The burly forward has hit in 
     double-digits in each of Harvard's first seven outings 
     enroute to a 14.6 ppg. clip.
       McLaughlin did have 11 returning letterwinners on hand, but 
     decided to remodel with youth instead. With freshmen now 
     eligible for Ivy varsity play, the second year mentor has 
     stacked his combined varsity-jayvee roster with 25 Yardlings 
     and six sophomores. New comer Dave Coastsworth (Bellevue, 
     Wa.) has performed admirably in the pivot and stands second 
     in rebounds (6.0 avg.).
       Harvard covets the big man in the middle, but still doesn't 
     have him. 6-10 fresh Bob McCabe (Winchester, Ma.) has been 
     sidelined with knee problems, an ailment that has already 
     forced 6-10 soph in topremature retirement, Mark Harris 
     (Wilmington, De.) and third leading scorer (11.5 ppg.), and 
     has provided sophomore stability up-front, but he only stands 
     6-3. Yardling Kirk Mundy (Minot, ND) has averaged eight 
     points in spot duty, but McLaughlin is hoping the 6-7 
     prospect will blossom with experience.
       The lack of size up-front has put a premium on speed and 
     quickness in the Harvard attack, and freshman Donald Fleming 
     (New Haven, Ct.) and Robert Taylor (Seattle, Wa.) have plenty 
     of both. Sophomores Tom Mannix (Briarchff, NY), last year's 
     leading freshmen scorer, has also seen duty as a corner 
     guard. Mannix's long-range bombs have frustrated opposition 
     zones throughout the season.

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