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...Credit Suisse Ltd. in the Bahamas, Wilkis conducted some 50 trades using inside information, according to the Government. Along the way, he transferred assets to other banks in the Cayman Islands, controlling the money through still more institutions in Liberia and the Bahamas and using the code name Mr. Blake. Later, under the name of Alan Darby, Wilkis talked with Levine, who called himself Mike Schwartz, about various insider-trading opportunities. Sokolow, who did not know Wilkis, began in 1981 to supply Levine with information about the pending actions of Shearson Lehman's corporate clients...
With several hundred proud parents and siblings in attendance, a fifteen-minute address by a Freeman Dyson, a physicist and noted author highlighted the society's 200th annual Commencement-time gathering. Dyson's remarks, which drew on the writings of William Blake and of 17th century author Richard Hakluyt, concerned man's tradition of exploration and the implications of that tradition for the use of space...
Bolcom's concerto is indeed that. The composer is probably better known as the peerless accompanist for his wife Mezzo Joan Morris in their programs of American popular songs. But his spacious cantata on Blake poems, Songs of Innocence and of Experience, was in contention for 1985's Pulitzer Prize for Music and should have won. The concerto, although on a smaller, less ambitious scale, is typically eclectic in its welding of disparate musical materials into a distinctive, stylish whole. There is a vigorous first movement, which tips its hat to the opening of the Bartok Second Violin Concerto...
ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Kurt Andersen, Patricia Blake, Tom Callahan, John S. - DeMott, William R. Doerner, John Greenwald, William A. Henry III, Gregory Jaynes, Marguerite Johnson, James Kelly, Richard N. Ostling, Jay D. Palmer, Sue Raffety, J. D. Reed, George Russell, Thomas A. Sancton, Evan Thomas, Anastasia Toufexis, Claudia Wallis, Michael Walsh...
Urban Outfitters has been about twice as many customers as usual, said cashier Heather O. Blake, with most of them looking to buy bathing suits and shorts for summer and spring. While spring may have brought smiles to the faces of store proprietors, Blake said the customers are still "not very friendly," their first concern being...