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...adult, the ladies? man "had a very utilitarian concept of women," said a police investigator; it was to "befriend those creatures because they could serve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Day Three of the Jackal | 12/16/1997 | See Source »

...arranging clever financing for hotel developments at home and abroad. Hired in his 30s by the secretive Bass brothers of Texas, he helped them acquire a 25% stake in then troubled Disney, pocketing a reported $50 million for himself in the process. His work with Disney helped him befriend Hollywood heavyweights like Michael Eisner and Michael Ovitz, and in 1994 he joined the Beverly Hills crowd by buying the old estate of actor Sidney Poitier. In 1989 he helped finance a $3.65 billion leveraged buyout of Minnesota-based Northwest Airlines, investing about $12 million of his own money. Today much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAN'T BUY ME LOVE? | 12/1/1997 | See Source »

...letter, sent to an unknown number of people, pleads for someone to reach out into her abysmal solitude and befriend her before she finished her spiraling plunge into psychosis...

Author: By Dharma E. Betancourt, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Thernstrom Speaks on Murder-Suicide Book | 10/2/1997 | See Source »

...Lansky was running errands for his father when he accidentally discovered young Benjamin "Bugsy" Seigel in the process of getting his butt kicked by Salvatore Lucania, soon to become Charles "Lucky" Luciano. After beating Luciano over the head with a monkey wrench until he calmed down, Lansky proceeded to befriend Seigel and eventually found the infamous hit squad Murder Inc., While Luciano built a prostitution (hence the nickname) empire that by 1935 made him the "Boss of Bosses...

Author: By Molly Hennessy-fiske, | Title: The Godfather Returns | 3/17/1997 | See Source »

Transfer students, who tend to group together and befriend each other, have far fewer complaints about Harvard's occasionally quirky social scene...

Author: By Charles G. Kels, | Title: A Whole New World | 2/3/1997 | See Source »

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