He said no moron plays football naked.”“Well, same with swimming, same with soccer—is this guy for real? Just don’t listen to him, he’s an i...diot.”The team was coming out of the locker rooms. They lined up at the starting blocks.“Okay, now, in lanes one through eight, I want...” he called out eight names, “100 meters freestyle. Give it everything. Mark ... GO!”Roger and Ralph Howard were timing the swimmers and one of the student trainers was assisting. For the second heat, he asked Kevin to. “Don’t say anything more over the phone. Come to my office in a bit. Is this something that the Director needs to be informed about?” the DO demanded.“Yes, he is going to have to be told about what happened,” Hill admitted, grudgingly.“Who else was there?” the DO demanded.“It was only Trent and me,” Hill told him.“Trent knows how to keep his mouth shut. Still remind him unless you think he needs to be brought into this,” the DO told him.“No, he wasn’t there for the most important part and I’ll. Money can buy a whole lot more than you would think it would. My wealth and power was growing since my move with the board. I now had more voting shares than any one else, which meant that no one could stop me.My first step was to buy Mason’s company.That took a little convicing, but we had overlapping industries so it mostly made sense.The second move was harder, which was to get Mason kicked out of his own company without an exit package.I dug up some shady dealings that he had made years. Finally the group dispersed to their own cars and he started to pull out as a pick-up nearly hit him and he’d had to slam on the brakes. When he was ready to pull onto the street a crowd appeared strung out on the sidewalk and blocked him. Finally on the street he was blocked at every intersection by a red light. He was cut-off in the traffic lane twice in three blocks by some Kamikaze driver. He’d lined up at the metered entrance to the freeway and it was the longest line of cars that he could.