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Financier Charles Keating's 68th birthday was not an occasion for celebration. Instead, a state-court jury in Los Angeles found the former head of California's Lincoln Savings & Loan, whose company sold $250 million in junk bonds to unwitting investors as it headed toward insolvency, guilty of 17 counts of securities fraud. Keating, whose $1.4 million in political contributions entangled five U.S. Senators in the S&L scandal, faces 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Last month the Senate reprimanded California Senator Alan Cranston for soliciting contributions from Keating while he was ! urging federal regulators...
...play opens with Frederic's (remarkable tenor Joel Derfner) 21st birthday, marking the official end of his legal apprenticeship to a band of pirates. His nursemaid, Ruth, (a clear and comic Diana Graham) had mistaken his father's request of "pilot" for "pirate" training and, now that Frederic is free, he seeks to destroy piracy...
Beethoven's Birthday Concert--with classical music performers from MIT performing Archduke Trio, Serenade in D and other works. In MIT's Kresge Auditorium, 84 Mass. Ave. Monday...
Pianist Shura Cherkassky is celebrating his 80th birthday this season in a typical way: a concert tour that would make a much younger artist flinch. Cherkassky still plays more than 80 dates a year, and audiences can be sure that there won't be any staleness or formula presentation. He is called the last of the great Romantics for good reason: his style is freewheeling, poetic, very much the flowering of his temperament and his mood of the moment. As such he is a priceless antidote to the prevailing vogue in pianism for note-perfect but dry interpretations. Along with...
Saroyan said he thought it was virtually impossible for the Ukrainians to vote against independence because "it would have been like saying don't give me a birthday present...