(FORTUNE Magazine) – IRA GLASSER, 56, head of the ACLU, preparing archconservative William F. Buckley Jr., 68, to attend his first pro baseball game ever: ''You will be pleased to know I stand obediently for the national anthem, though, of course, I would defend your right to remain seated should you so decide.''

MICHAEL MILKEN, 47, the ex-Drexel financier who's now fighting prostate cancer: ''Wall Street is telling the drug companies, whose market value has fallen $78 billion in the last 18 months, that you are going to have to cut research because there is a perception that prices are going to be regulated. Medical research and breakthroughs will slow down.''