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...Northeastern hates Radcliffe and we knew they wanted us, but we felt we could work through them," said three-year varsity rower Jillian Buriak...
...Levine to implicate Ivan Boesky, a Wall Street speculator, who was fined $100 million for insider trading. He in turn agreed to help prosecutors pursue Milken, who had become the ultimate Mr. Big. (Boesky, bearded and gaunt, now resides in a Brooklyn halfway house, where he is completing a three-year prison sentence...
...Charles Ponzi promised a return of 50% in less than two months. The plot was ingeniously simple: he paid the early customers (and himself) with money from the later ones. When the whistle blew he was $3 million in arrears. Ponzi served a three-year sentence. Paroled, he advertised a new scheme, 200% in 60 days. He was rearrested and eventually deported to his native Italy. Only two things were left behind: the usual dupes and the name Ponzi schemes, still used to describe illegal methods of fleecing the sheep...
...sure, Kohl is calling for talks, not presenting a ready plan. But his sense of urgency upstaged his own Economics Ministry, which only recently proffered a three-year, three-stage plan for integrating the East German economy into that of the Federal Republic. Since full monetary union is the capstone, not the cornerstone, of any economic union, Kohl's proposal is at least partly exhortatory. It is consistent with his view that unification must mean the incorporation of East Germany into the European Community, not the creation of a neutral Fourth Reich. What is remarkable is the rush. Kohl...
...after serving in the Australian army during World War II, Reg Greer had rebuffed inquiries about his past. Germaine's mother seemed not to care. But after her father's death, Germaine, best known as the author of the 1970 feminist treatise The Female Eunuch, embarked on an arduous three-year investigation of the man she never did call Daddy in life. Her quest started with the few details he had supplied to the army on enlistment, and it took her from Australia, where she grew up, to Europe, India and Africa, and down several exotic blind alleys...