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...Milken's lawyer, Alan Dershowitz, calls Den of Thieves an anti-Semitic book, in part because it focuses heavily on Jewish insider traders...
...first book, Dennis Levine's Inside Out: An Insider's Account of Wall Street, is junk, bound. Don't waste your time. Instead, to learn about Levine and Ivan Boesky and particularly about Mike Milken, read James B. Stewart's spectacular Den of Thieves. I read it because, like most people, I wasn't entirely sure. Was Milken, though guilty, the victim of a witch hunt over largely technical violations? Were he and his faithful servants, like Arthur Liman (for the defense) and Ken Lerer (for the p.r. machine), the ones I should root for? Hah! For the first time...
After reading Den of Thieves, you may in fact wonder whether Milken, whose 10-year sentence made folks gasp, didn't get off easy. Sure it's a waste to have a genius cleaning toilets. But if the downside of crime is appointment to a Treasury post, or some other challenging job, then where is the downside really...
Dutch Foreign Minister Hans van den Broek, the E.C. President, condemned the idea outright last week. In acid remarks clearly aimed at Genscher, Van den Broek said, "It is easy from behind a desk to recognize Slovenia and Croatia and leave the rest of the work aside." According to Dutch officials, moreover, their government moved to call the WEU meeting only to force gun-shy Bonn "to put up or shut up" on the proposal to commit troops. About Genscher, a British diplomat cracked, "In his pursuit of the Nobel Peace Prize, he has been grossly irresponsible." Britain and France...
...lead and signed on to an E.C. plan to monitor a cease-fire and moderate an all-party peace conference for war-torn Yugoslavia. Cornered into a toast, Milosevic said, "You always have to protect victims, and Serbs are victims in this case." Dutch Foreign Minister Hans van den Broek, who brokered the agreement on behalf of the Community, added an amendment to Milosevic's grudging salute: "All those who are being killed are victims; they are all human beings. So let's drink to them...