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This is the value of Harvard's endowment at the end of fiscal year 1995. By 1996, the endowment's value had risen 26 percent to $9.1 billion, due mainly to the bull market, but just as important to this increase has been Harvard's frugal management of its precious nest...
...buzz for tax relief has rarely been louder, and is part of a bipartisan deal to balance the budget by 2002. More important, there is mounting grass-roots support for cutting taxes on investment gains. Thanks to a roaring bull market, and the fact that anyone with two nickels to spare is in stocks, Wall Street windfalls are no longer reserved for the rich. A survey by the NASDAQ stock exchange shows that the proportion of adults owning equities has doubled, to 43%, since...
Under a law barring criminals from making money from their crimes, Mafia snitch Sammy ("the Bull") Gravano shouldn't benefit from his work with author Peter Maas on a book about life in the Mob. Publisher HarperCollins says he was not paid, but one victim's daughter thinks that's bull. Last week Laura Garofalo sued Gravano for wrongful-death damages to the tune of $50 million...
...cite among the few successes of the FBI the conviction of Mob boss John Gotti and the arrest of Unabomber suspect Theodore Kaczynski. If it had not been for a plea bargain with mass murderer Sammy ("the Bull") Gravano in exchange for his testimony, Gotti would probably still be the "Teflon Don." If Kaczynski's brother had not gone to the FBI with incriminating evidence, the Unabomber suspect might still be living in his Montana cabin. ROBERT J. QUIRK Sarasota...
...beyond the scope of this reviewer's expertise to adjudicate the accuracy of events as related by the title figure to author Peter Maas in Underboss: Sammy the Bull Gravano's Story of Life in the Mafia (HarperCollins; 308 pages; $25). Like most people when you get right down to it, our protagonist--the most famous snitch in Mob history, the man whose testimony helped put "Teflon Don" John Gotti behind bars for good--sees himself as a voice of reason in a world of blowhards and sociopaths. A contract on his brother-in-law, which Gravano himself doesn...