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Little investor rancor but presumably considerable discomfort was in evidence at a meeting Boesky held on Thursday at the office of his lawyers in downtown Manhattan. In attendance were some of the 43 limited partners who had anted up $221 million in capital for his major arbitrage fund, Ivan F. Boesky & Co. L.P. Boesky's tribulations had cast an unwelcome spotlight on a heterogeneous group of investors who suddenly found themselves unwitting participants in the scandal. The list of partners included several high- profile companies, such as Rapid-American (investment in Boesky: $5 million) and National Can ($6.5 million). Prominent...
Pyongyang's glee at its neighbor's discomfort suggested that North Korea would have had no qualms about mounting a malicious disinformation campaign, although probably not one centering on rumors of its leader's death. Kim has spent nearly four decades creating a cult around his personality and accomplishments that is Pharaonic in its intensity. He has erected larger- than-life statues of himself in virtually every North Korean city, and inspired a school curriculum based on adulation of his teachings. Korea watchers in the U.S. doubt that he would trifle with his self-created legend merely to score...
Although yesterday's early-morning snowstorm caught Harvard off-guard and forced the cancellation of the men's varsity soccer game against Yale (see story, page 12), students suffered little more than discomfort...
...strain between the all-over pattern and the real motifs gives his Nice paintings their special vitality. But the strain was real, and in extreme cases, like Decorative Figure on an Ornamental Ground, 1925-26, it induces an almost palpable discomfort. The sheer congestion of pattern -- rococo mirror, painted wallpaper, overlapping rugs, Ming blue planter -- dismays the eye while seducing it, and the architectonic forms of the nude halt the whirling of color like a massive log brusquely jammed in the gears of a machine. This is the creation not of a complacent man but of an artist...
...years, Eastern's hourly no-frills flights linking Boston, New York and Washington have been the backbone of the Bos-Wash axis. Habitues have dubbed the $75 ride between New York and Washington, which combines the convenience and discomfort of a subway, the "cattle car." Anybody who is anybody in New York and Washington takes it at least twice a week. Senators, football players, lobbyists, lawyers and bankers scuttle between their spheres of influence, elbowing one another at the gate for favored seats. In Nora Ephron's Heartburn, the shuttle serves as a leitmotiv of power. Complaining about the shuttle...