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...weddings performed each year in the U.S., 22% are between older women and younger men, up from 16% in 1970. "It signals a profound change in how men and women are looking at each other, and what is considered a satisfying relationship," says Writer Victoria Houston, 42, whose husband Brant is nine years her junior. Indeed, declares Psychologist Sally Peterson of New York City, far from being financially or sexually exploitative, these couplings represent the "first egalitarian heterosexual relationship...
...Journal reporter, on 59 counts of conspiracy, securities fraud, and mail and wire fraud, for using advance knowledge of his paper's stories to make illicit profits in the stock market; in New York City. Winans had passed along information about future stories to former Kidder, Peabody Stockbrokers Peter Brant, who previously pleaded guilty to similar charges, and Kenneth P. Felis, who was found guilty last week on 41 counts. Of the $675,000 in profits, $31,000 was funneled to Winans through his longtime roommate, David J. Carpenter, who was convicted on twelve counts...
...story of Winans' improprieties broke in March, co-workers suggested that he might have been the dupe of sophisticated traders and investment analysts whom he interviewed for his column. But in May the SEC charged in a civil suit that two stockbrokers who shared in the scheme, David Brant and Kenneth Felis, both then employed by Kidder Peabody, paid Winans $31,000 disguised as interior-decoration fees to his New York City roommate, David Carpenter. Last week's indictment charges that in the first half of 1983, before any arrangement with the brokers, Winans and Carpenter on their...
...contrast to these modest sums, the later scheme allegedly reaped almost $700,000 in net profits. Brant pleaded guilty to conspiracy and fraud in July, agreeing to pay a penalty of about $450,000 in profits, to give up the securities business permanently, and to cooperate in the prosecution of Winans, Carpenter and Felis. He was not included in last week's indictment, and is expected to be a prosecution witness. But a substantial question remains as to how valid the case will be. Officials of the Journal, which has been bitterly critical of Winans and the alleged plot...
...they hadn't thrown you down." Israel's immediate challenge, however, is at home, not with its neighbors. The country must solve not just the temporary problem of creating a new government but the more lasting one of how to translate its political will and vi brant democracy into stronger, more effective leadership...