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No one expected the Resolution Trust Corporation, the oddball agency cobbled together in 1989 to undertake the largest federal bailout ever, to liquidate more than 800 savings and loans without a hitch. And the dubious were right. From the beginning, the RTC, whose charter is to find and prosecute the...
The crooked network, centered in New York City, Chicago and Atlanta, reportedly used several grifts. The simpler versions included billing Medicaid for prescriptions that were never filled or substituting cheaper generic drugs while billing Medicaid for higher-priced alternatives. But the operation also did a brisk business in reselling drugs...
Patches of snow still glimmer on the craggy mountains above, but on the Black Sea coast of the Crimean peninsula summer has arrived. In Yalta the terraced stone walls of the old town are draped in purple wisteria and wild yellow roses, and the first wave of tourists has come...
When Zaks began casting, he believed revivals require stars -- "but after I heard 'I don't think so' a couple of times, I changed my mind." Instead he created a star of his own, choosing Prince as Adelaide, the shopworn showgirl who has been Nathan's forlorn fiance for the...
( AS NINE SLEEK THOROUGHBREDS exploded out of the starting gate in the $38,000 Prix Omnium II at the Saint-Cloud racecourse outside Paris earlier this month, all binoculars were trained on a single horse. In the diffident manner that marks his style, the diminutive three-year-old, a crooked...