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...little known real estate developer with a $52 million offer to buy the faltering Dade Savings and Loan (assets: $2.2 billion). State regulators were happy someone was willing to take over the sick thrift. Paul renamed the S&L and within a few years sent its profits zooming. His method: investing CenTrust's assets heavily in junk bonds, many of which he bought from Michael Milken at Drexel Burnham Lambert. By the late 1980s the payoff from CenTrust's $1.35 billion portfolio of junk made the S&L the region's most profitable thrift. But as the market value...
Latin America's history is filled with government reversals, but rarely at the ballot box. Coups, revolutions and invasions -- often organized by Washington -- are more common means. Ever since the trauma of Viet Nam, the U.S. has sought a less direct and costly method to have its way. Where military force could still do the trick cost effectively, the U.S. was willing to use it, as in Grenada and Panama. But in Nicaragua, wittingly or not, Washington stumbled on an arm's-length policy: wreck the economy and prosecute a long and deadly proxy war until the exhausted natives overthrow...
...participants in the birth of the U.S.S.R. believed they were choosing the best method of solving the nationalities question. Instead, they were setting a huge time bomb. No matter what the reasons were behind the formulation of the union -- according to Lenin, to stimulate the world revolution; according to Stalin, to build socialism in one country -- it would even out the various levels of development of many peoples and bring different nations, cultures and civilizations into a common framework. But only one method could be used to achieve this Utopian goal: mass violence. The union was doomed from the very...
Many of us still hope to overcome the multitude of difficulties that besiege us by our usual method -- by means of force, this time ordered by a President empowered to do so. Such is the dramatic and even tragic nature of the present situation: instead of moving ahead toward doing away with the empire, we have become like rabbits transfixed before a boa constrictor. All we are doing is returning to an age of centralization and dictatorship -- this time in the form of the presidency, since the President of a disintegrating Soviet Union can only emerge as its dictator...
Tram says New Pathways succeeds in teachingstudents to be more compassionate. In addition,its case study method stresses actual learninginstead of rote memorization...