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Although Joseph was involved in a widely-publicized Wall Street scandal in the late 1980s, he is remembered by many of his classmates at Harvard Business School—where he graduated in 1963—for his leadership in business and nonprofit work...
Joseph served as CEO of Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc. from 1985 until the firm’s collapse in 1990. Before scandal struck, Drexel profited in the 1980s from selling junk bonds, but then Michael R. Milken, a trader under Joseph’s supervision, was imprisoned for 22 months and fined $600 million for violating U.S. securities law, according to Bloomberg News. While Joseph faced no criminal charges, he was banned for a time from assuming another position as a Wall Street CEO, according to Portfolio.com’s “Worst American CEOs of All Time?...
...been shaken. In late September, millionaire Florida developer Bob Ward was charged with shooting his wife to death at their $5 million Isleworth home. (He has pleaded not guilty and is facing trial.) It was the first homicide the gated community has experienced since it was started in the 1980s by golf icon Arnold Palmer, who fell in love with the area's rolling landscape and chain of lakes. (He created an 18-hole golf course there that is consistently ranked one of the longest and most difficult in links-crazy Florida...
...group accused of killing hundreds of Congolese citizens this year. The organization is composed mainly of ethnic Hutu, some of whom are believed to be responsible for the massacre of more than 500,000 Rwandan Tutsi in 1994. The arrest of Murwanashyaka, who has lived in Germany since the 1980s, came just days before a U.N. report revealed direct links between FDLR leaders living in the U.S. and Europe and the current conflict in eastern Congo...
PTSD wasn't recognized as an illness until the 1980s, but it has been around for as long as men have been killing one another. Its symptoms include the abuse of alcohol and other drugs, an overall emotional numbness punctuated by outbursts of rage, severe depression and recurring nightmares. In extreme cases, it can lead to suicide or murder. One military doctor described PTSD's symptoms as "going from zero to combat speed in nothing flat...