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...industry last year posted record pretax profits of $12.2 billion. More work. More profit. Relatively few people. Sound familiar? Wall Street hadn't been totally left out. Its firms have been merging practically forever, but seldom on such an extensive scale, where even giant Merrill Lynch might be bait for, say, Chase Manhattan. In a bull market, and with consolidation running wild on the Street, brokerages are good stocks...
...middle-class students these schools are trying to attract take the bait, the results might be visible on Harvard Yard--in a shrinking middle-class presence among Harvard's student body in the years to come...
Brentwood is about money, says Richard McNeil, who manages the Brentwood Cigar Club. After his acquittal, O.J. began hanging around the cigar shop because the owners had hired two "very attractive airhead blonds" to minx around the place. Live bait for local libido. It backfired. When other customers saw O.J., they walked...
...Exactly! He'd take the bait. This is a guy with so little judgment that he was going to accept a deanship financed by Scaife at Pepperdine, a place that wouldn't show up on any law-school ranking that did not also include some vo-techs...
...Lewinsky has taken up press time, Clinton has gone on the legislative offensive. Chait points to a memo released by Christina Martin, Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich's press secretary, that cautioned fellow Republicans not to criticize the President's political plans. She writes: "Don't take the bait. The White House is setting up straw men on popular issues, hoping to draw us into bloody fights, so they can demagogue that we are `against' the environment, the elderly, the poor, the sick, and the young." Whatever your feelings about the Republican predilection to, in fact, be against...