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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...
Under other circumstances, the vacant downtown storefront where the seance was held might have managed a sedate sort of spookiness. But any potential eeriness was quickly overwhelmed by the mob of cheerful Appletonians, sipping wine, munching on cheese and -- zounds -- even joking. "I see his shoes," giggled one onlooker, peering at the floor as the medium began his performance. "But where are his feet...
...country, bringing the plight of the homeless, both old and new, to an early crisis as shelters everywhere brimmed over with people escaping the cold. Some could not escape: in Kansas City two homeless men were found frozen to death, one in a portable toilet at a downtown parking lot, the other in a construction-site trailer...
...black bulletproof Mercedes limousine pulled up at the crowded downtown plaza as the final United Left rally before the balloting in Lima's tight mayoral race was getting under way. Peering through the dark tinted windshield, the man behind the wheel discreetly -- and expertly -- gauged the size and mood of the crowd. Then he made a quick decision: the candidate for mayor put up by his ruling center-left Popular American Revolutionary Alliance (A.P.R.A.) needed help. The limo wheeled around and headed back to the presidential palace half a mile away. Bucking a tradition that has kept Peruvian chief executives...
...even more impressive: $105.6 billion. Toronto's Reichmann brothers, for example, now own 8% of all the office space in Manhattan. Last March a subsidiary of Vancouver-based B.C.E. Development bought $1 billion worth of real estate in five U.S. cities, including 13% of the office space in downtown Minneapolis. Other Canadian investors have purchased gold mines, chains of movie theaters and California wineries...