Word: accountants
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Private Domain ends in 1974, the year Taylor stopped dancing. Though the last pages are upbeat -- starting work on the exultant Esplanade -- they are preceded by a remorseless account of physical and emotional breakdown. The trouble began when Taylor started gulping Dexamyl, a combination of amphetamine and tranquilizer, not knowing that it was addictive (Dexamyl has since been taken off the market). In 1968 he disappeared from a tour and spent a nightmare week in Liverpool, drunk, debauched, close to death, a Walpurgisnacht pitilessly described. A few years later his ankle, often injured, was ruined. He had ulcers. Finally...
...talented but riskprone. Last week the company began an in-house probe and fired a second trader, who had allegedly failed to disclose investments and lost $10 million. Meanwhile, colleagues began looking for hints in Rubin's background about why he took such a plunge. According to one account, the trader had been a devoted blackjack player before his business-school days...
...normally quiet tailors, who account for 3,000 jobs and more than $44 million in annual sales, are not sitting around with their hands in their pockets. Some have written letters to Parliament. Others have asked U.S. customers, who make up 60% of Savile Row's clientele, to protest to the British embassy...
...American Affairs, who had insisted publicly that "nobody in this building had any idea of any contributions coming from a foreign government" just days before it was disclosed he had solicited $10 million for the contras from the Sultan of Brunei. Worse yet, the money deposited into a Swiss account provided by North has disappeared. Says an Administration official: "Aside from the question of whether he did anything indictable, he will at the very least be sacrificed. Elliott knew most of the essential details of what Ollie and his boys were...
Eugene Rivers, an undergraduate on leave from the College, plans to publish his allegations of discrimination at Harvard in an upcomming book, "How Harvard Rules." The account maintains that Epps' race cost him a fair shot at the College's top deanship and that similar institutional prejudice prevented Senior Admissions Officer David L. Evans from serious consideration as Director of Admissions when that job opened up last summer. Rivers claims that despite 16 years as dean of students, Epps was not even interviewed for the job by Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence. The lack of Blacks...