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Under last week's racketeering charges, the Government can freeze the Milken brothers' assets even before they are tried. Prosecutors are expected to ask the investment bankers to post a $1 billion bond to prevent such an asset seizure. Last week Milken said he would take a leave of absence from the firm to fight the charges. Said he: "After almost 2 1/2 years of leaks and distortions, I am now eager to present all the facts in an open and unbiased forum...
...English has shifted from the literary world toward those of science, business, medicine and North American slang. In fact, a partial listing of what the language has been up to lately is enough to inspire depression: brain-dead, nose job, right-to-die, acid rain, crack, heat-seeker, asset stripping, greenmail, petro-currency, barf, drunk tank. There is not much here that would inspire Keats to write...
...Drinking alcohol is not a prerequisite for membership in any club. In 1989, an excessive drinker is seen as a potential liability, not an asset...
Just as important, he is an old friend of George Bush's -- a key asset in this presidency -- and has ties to two other Administration power centers. While serving as Gerald Ford's White House chief of staff in 1975 and '76, Cheney worked alongside Brent Scowcroft, then as now the National Security Adviser, as well as Bush's Secretary of State James Baker, who ran Ford's 1976 presidential campaign...
...Fitzsimmons says that, on the whole, homeschooling is an educational asset that Harvard considers favorably when making its admissions decisions. "One often sees a self-reliance and independence, as well as intellectual curiosity in people with unusual educational experiences," Fitzsimmons says. Homeschooled students, he says, "do just as well as most all students who come here...