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...coined one of the most famous phrases of the 1980s: "Greed is good." Apparently it still is. Last week in a Manhattan courtroom, right next door to the Woody Allen-vs.-Mia Farrow soap opera, Ivan Boesky, 56, out of prison but exiled from Wall Street, began his latest takeover attempt. He is demanding nearly $50 million in alimony from his former wife, Seema Boesky, 50ish, a wealthy heiress in her own right. He claims that he made her "rich beyond her imagination," and that even though some of these riches resulted from his own illegal activities, he still deserves...
...invited to participate, at its Manhattan stop or later this year in Chicago, Boston, Washington and Atlanta. Saltimbanco (an Italian term meaning "street performer") will leave no one untouched and few unprodded or untweaked. A visitor may discover a sobbing clown in his lap or find herself in an impromptu troupe of somersaulters. One gent was lured onstage to safari through an invisible jungle, then high-noon it in a sham shootout...
Shapiro is eight years into a related addiction, Rotisserie League Baseball, invented by LIFE managing editor Dan Okrent and named for a defunct Manhattan restaurant. This week Shapiro joins 11 otherwise sane "club owners" at a tavern for a fantasy auction of every player in the American League. The pennant winner shows the best aggregate statistics at season's end. Shapiro hopes that reporting for this week's story will give him a scouting edge...
EVEN WITH THE LIKES OF WOODY Allen and Mia Farrow on the witness stand, Room 341 of the State Supreme Court building in lower Manhattan can seldom be described as "hushed." The din of construction work and the shriek of police sirens outside easily penetrate the courtroom windows. The government-issue wooden chairs pop and creak when their occupants change position, which, given the occasional lulls of legalese, happens regularly...
...Manhattan courtroom, the dissection of B.C.C.I. begins...