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...Sperling and Michael Eisenson--the managers of HMC's high-risk, high-gain private placement portfolio--continue to work at HMC, earning stratospheric salaries, despite their lackluster performance. Sperling and Eisenson achieved fame several years ago for becoming the first HMC officials to top the $1 million compensation barrier, just two years before the University marked down the value of their portfolio by about $200 million, roughly 20 percent. Indeed, there's reason to believe the portfolio's value was inflated in the first place, thereby contributing to the two men's earnings...
...first HMC employees to break the milliondollar barrier were Scott M. Sperling and MichaelEisenson, managing partners of the high-riskAeneas subsidiary, who earned the record salariesin...
...Cairo negotiations between Israel and the P.L.O., Yasser Arafat's representative sent word at the last minute that he could not accept the building. When the crowd learned this, the waiting suddenly ended. "Down with Israel! . . . Long live the P.L.O.! . . . Allahu Akbar!" they shouted, as boys scaled the barrier to plant a Palestinian flag on top of the fence...
...antismoking forces have their idealistic side too. Dr. Jonathan Fielding, a UCLA professor of public health and former Massachusetts commissioner of health, argues that banning smoking once and for all will remove a barrier that is separating Americans. "Smoking has become associated with lower educational attainment and lower social status," he says. "It becomes divisive in a sense. In a country where we have too many things that divide people, this is another thing dividing...
...rule negotiations beyond areas already agreed upon. These concessions prompted the Palestinians to resume talks. Rabin's reluctant acquiescence to the international observers, in the face of heated opposition in Israel, allowed the first non-Israeli deployment in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The deployment crossed a symbolic barrier, as Israel has never before allowed outside forces to tamper with its internal security...