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...returns and discovered that they were fraudulent. But instead of filing a report with his office, Weiss conducted a phony audit in exchange for the payoff. In November 1980, Nipon made the first of what would be four $50,000 cash payments to another IRS agent, Edmond Costantini, who served as intermediary. In 1982 Costantini paid $15,000 to a third IRS agent so that Nipon's 1980 corporate return would be approved...
...independent financier whose family has been in banking since the Ottoman Empire find happiness working for American Express? The answer seems to be no. In 1983, American Express bought Edmond J. Safra's Trade Development Bank for $520 million in cash and securities. Lebanese-born Safra is one of the world's most respected moneymen. He built a banking empire by giving meticulous attention to the accounts of wealthy Middle Easterners. What better way for American Express's bank to hit world-class status than to hire a world-class banker? Safra was offered the company...
CYRANO DE BERGERAC by Edmond Rostand...
...that the play is unworthy of resuscitation. Edmond Rostand was 29 when he wrote Cyrano; he seasoned this tale of a 17th century cavalier with the dash, sweep, idealism and tireless eloquence of youth. In 1898, when the original French production played London, it arrived like a gust of rose-scented air in the stolid cathedral of naturalism. Proclaimed Critic Max Beerbohm: "Even if Cyrano be not a classic, it is at least a wonderfully ingenious counterfeit of one." And even if, in this century, the counterfeit has become more evident than the ingenuity, Rostand's rhapsody has attracted...
...cello to play a wistful air. Welcome to empyrean, where wit is a state of grace and the seraphim move in minute, minuet steps. No mortals need apply here, in this latest Royal Shakespeare Company triumph, which opened last week at Broadway's Gershwin Theater in repertory with Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac. In the Much Ado realm, gods and goddesses play at love, duel with words, feign indifference and even death to gauge a suitor's passion-all to wile away a heavenly three hours...