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...grand jury hearing evidence presented by Manhattan district attorney Robert Morgenthau was readying the first of a series of indictments against B.C.C.I. officials and others in a case stemming from the bank's secret ownership of First American Bankshares, the parent of Washington's largest bank. Among those testifying before the New York jury was former Defense Secretary Clark Clifford, the chairman of First American, who has denied knowing that B.C.C.I. owned his banking firm...
Years ago, I was on a seaplane with two aspiring billionaires (they were merely Rich Guys) bound for Manhattan. The fare was $100, and after we'd landed on the East River, the pilot asked us to cough it up. I reached for my wallet, thinking "Boy, this is a lot of money"; Rich Guy No. 1 pulled a $100 bill from his wallet; Rich Guy No. 2 asked me to reach behind and grab his briefcase -- his money was in there. But as I was beginning to twist around toward the luggage, Rich Guy No. 1 raised his hand...
...wide recognition by rendering the poignant anecdote Gimpel the Fool in English. But royalties were slow to arrive, and for many years Singer lived modestly on the earnings of his second wife Alma, a buyer at Saks Fifth Avenue. Until late in life he kept his name in the Manhattan phone book, and at lunch hour he could be found munching a vegetarian meal at his favorite West Side cafeteria. When he was asked, "Do you abstain from meat for your health?" Singer liked to focus his cerulean eyes on the interviewer. "I don't worry about my arteries...
...investigators now say openly that the Justice Department has not only reined in its own probe of the bank but is also part of a concerted campaign to derail any full investigation. Says Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan district attorney, who first launched his investigations into B.C.C.I. two years ago: "We have had no cooperation from the Justice Department since we first asked for records in March 1990. In fact they are impeding our investigation, and Justice Department representatives are asking witnesses not to cooperate with...
...danger is not from the doctor but from slipshod practices, says Jack Rosenberg, a Manhattan dentist and founder of a gay and lesbian dental guild. "Asking your dentist whether or not he is gay is not going to protect you," Rosenberg says. "Instead, you should ask, 'Do you sterilize your instruments? Do you follow standard infection control?' Those are the questions that will protect you." Rosenberg caused a ruckus last week when he publicly declared that he knew several dentists who are HIV-positive and that he advises them not to tell their patients...