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...Politics); Sophia A. van Wingerden '89 of Cabot House and Rapid City, South Dakota, Assistant Magazine Editor, Casey J. Lartigue '89 of Houston, Texas, Associate Sports Editor, Jennifer M. Frey '90 of Mather House and Allegany, New York, Assistant Sports Editor, Julio R. Varela '90 of Lowell House and Bronx, New York, Assistant Sports Editor, Michael J. Lartigue '89 of Houston, Texas, Special Projects Editor...
...runs a saying of Pope John XXIII's, affixed to a wall at Cardinal Hayes Catholic High School in New York's tough South Bronx. The school tries to live up to the prescription. No hats can be worn inside Cardinal Hayes school, nor is there any room for blue jeans or sneakers, beards or mustaches, profanity, alcohol or "bad attitudes." Bad attitudes involve anything that contradicts the school's motto: "For God and country...
...European immigrants. The student body of 3,000 was 98% white, all Reillys and Bonnannos and Pepchinskis. Today 64% of the 1,150 students are Hispanic, 35% black. The transformation is partly a reflection of the changing community: white flight has long since darkened the face of the South Bronx. But it also represents a choice made by growing numbers of minority parents searching for an alternative to the chaos of inner-city public schools...
Suddenly the professors had a salable product. Bolstered by the marketing skills of their new partner, a Bronx-born investment consultant named John O'Brien, portfolio insurance took off. By 1984, Los Angeles-based Leland O'Brien Rubinstein was insuring hundreds of millions in assets. Two years later, the firm had licensed its strategy to half a dozen investment counselors, including Wells Fargo Investment Advisors and Aetna Life Insurance, and the value of covered assets had grown to some $45 billion...
Meese has publicly conceded that, at Wallach's urging, he helped Wedtech get a "fair hearing" on a $32 million Army engine contract in 1982. The Army, which had considered Wedtech unqualified for the work, agreed to award the no- bid contract to the Bronx firm after an unusual White House meeting in the office of James Jenkins, then Meese's top deputy. Jenkins later went to work for Wedtech. At the time Meese was Counsellor to the President. Giuliani stressed that the defendants are not charged with illegally influencing Meese, but were indicted for the allegedly unlawful...