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Among the real estate wheeler-dealers, the Chinese tend to invest in housing, the Koreans in commercial property. Indeed, just as the turn-of-the-century immigrants clustered in certain kinds of business -- the Irish in politics and policing, Jews in the textile industry -- each new national group has its common calling. The division of labor establishes new, fairly benign stereotypes. Africans, mostly young men, sell sunglasses, umbrellas and baubles from blankets spread on Manhattan sidewalks. Albanians own apartment buildings. Greeks set up coffee shops, the walls invariably decorated with murals of the Parthenon. Koreans, it seems, suddenly own every...
...What I resent is that all of us who operate honestly and ethically get indicted in the broad sweep." Both businessmen and consumers are asking why the new outbreak of lawlessness is occurring, and the Reagan Administration is stepping up efforts to bring it under control. Says Stanton Wheeler, director of Yale University's studies on white-collar crime: "People are increasingly realizing that the whole economic system operates on the basis of trust. When that trust is repeatedly violated, the system itself begins to be in doubt...
...passing judgment on businessmen, the courts face what Yale's Wheeler calls a "paradox of leniency and severity." Says he: "Many whitecollar criminals are first-time offenders who have records of contributions to their community and have often led exemplary lives. From that point of view, they deserve a great deal of leniency. On the other hand, they occupy positions of power and trust, and their violation of the law is significant. Judges try to weigh one interest against the other, and it's often a difficult...
...something of an identity problem. And since he likes to visualize himself sporting an Afro haircut and helping Kareem Abdul-Jabbar lead the Lakers to N.B.A. glory, the evidence seems to support that theory. But a couch, unless it is shared by a blond as attractive as Dana Wheeler-Nicholson -- playing a distressed damsel he rescues -- is the last place any sensible person would want to find him languishing. Much better for himself and a gray, tired world that Fletch be up and doing, a gliberated male whose principal weapon in the war against crime...
Physicist John Wheeler, a leading black-hole theorist, sees another implication -- ominous, but rather far off. If Sgr A* is a black hole, he says, it is continuously consuming bits and pieces of the galaxy, becoming gravitationally more powerful as it does. "The more it eats, the more it wants," explains Wheeler. "In that sense," he says, "it is eating the galaxy, which means, it is conceivable that the Milky Way could one day be consumed...