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Assuming a new identity, Eric Stevens, and taking up with Sonia Schulte, the wife of his former boss at LaSalle Street, Frankel heard about a troubled Tennessee insurance company, Franklin American Life. In 1991, with money remaining from his derelict investment funds and a few dubious letters of credit, he founded Thunor Trust as a vehicle to take over Franklin. Thunor was run by two Nashville businessmen, who also claim to be victims. Frankel then used Franklin American's assets to purchase at least 10 other insurance companies throughout the South and Midwest. Laxly regulated insurance companies such as Franklin...
...certain tone-deafness. The Holocaust's memory, in this country far from the death camps, may be inflated and abused. But it seems perverse to argue on that basis that it is unworthy of American tears. This book should be read as a corrective to dutiful hype and dubious comparisons, not as an injunction against feeling...
...Baumohl isn?t even sure he can trust the surprisingly robust number on its face. With so much riding politically on Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi?s ability to get his country?s once-proud economic heart beating again, "it?s a bit dubious," he says. "I?m not saying there?s some nefarious plot, but with so much political pressure for a turnaround, some analysts suspect that some pretty optimistic reckoning was used...
...while he has worked himself into the ground since he took the job in 1991--his exhaustion at one point became national news--a long look reveals that Rudenstine's accomplishments are sometimes dubious...
...burned up so much of my time and energythat I didn't write books. This led my colleaguesand the professional administration to wonder ifmy professional credentials were dubious," Heimertsays...