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...painting, signed with a solitary V, is apparently a work that Van Gogh painted in Paris in 1886. By 1930 it belonged to a Swiss banker, and it was later bequeathed to his Milwaukee relatives. When Chicago's Leslie Hindman auction house puts the painting on the block in March, the obscure work could fetch as much as $800,000. Its discovery has sent fortune hunters rummaging through their attics, hoping to strike oils...
...There's no way the tiny banker can compete with an institution that has no bad loans and that has grown with the help of government underwriting of its takeovers. The small guy is going to go under. We have in a sense nationalized the system. And the diminished bank competition is aggravating the credit crunch...
Looking beyond the S&L scandal, Seidman is fighting for reform of the whole banking system. He argues that antiquated regulations have prevented U.S. banks from remaining competitive (Seidman's deep belief in the competitive system led him to join with banker Steven Skancke last August in publishing a cheerleading book, Productivity: The American Advantage). If the government could simultaneously broaden what banks are allowed to do but restrict their use of insured deposits, he says in a Seidmanian flight of metaphor, "we would have created sort of a minor miracle and ridden off in two directions at once, successfully...
Dartmouth utilized the absence of foul-trouble-plagued Harvard Co-Captain Ron Mitchell to turn a 40-36 deficit into a 55-52 lead with 11 minutes remaining in the game. But Rullman went to work, hitting a banker in the lane, a three-pointer and a pair of foul shots over the next three minutes to tie the contest...
...ended the second trial resulting from the vicious rape and nearly fatal beating of an investment banker in New York City's Central Park in 1989. Three juveniles were convicted of rape and assault last August. After the latest trial, Richardson faces a maximum sentence of 10 years. Wise, who was treated as an adult, could get up to 26. Their sentences will be pronounced on Jan. 9. A third trial, slated for next month, will determine the fate of the last alleged assailant...