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Using the proceeds from the sell-offs, Davis then began acquiring media properties like Esquire magazine and the Prentice Hall publishing firm. Wall Street applauded the restructuring and sent G&W's stock on a climb that earned shareholders a 240% return on their investment from 1983 to 1988. Davis became one of the highest-paid CEOs, reportedly earning more than $16 million in total compensation last year...
Much of the crack trade is conducted in the housing projects, which have been run by a private firm since 1986, when the corrupt local authority was ousted by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. "Living here is hell," says Villa Griffin resident Rosie Kimble, 44. "I'm scared to go out to church at night for fear someone will break in while I'm gone. It's already happened once. With all the dopeheads around here, there's shooting almost every night. You walk out the door, they're liable to shoot you dead...
Those limitations should help allay the worst fear of biotech watchers: the new technique could be used by unethical researchers to manipulate the genetic makeup of humans. "It's amazing if true, and would make our work much easier," says Steven Holtzman of Embryogen Corp., a biotechnology firm with labs in Princeton, N.J. But no one is about to abandon the standard technique until other scientists complete tests of the Italians' work -- a process that is already well under...
...phone -- in Greek, of course. (Wylie later handled Stone's unlikely 1988 best seller, The Trial of Socrates.) Three years ago, Wylie persuaded British agents Gillon Aitken and Brian Stone to form a partnership. Wylie has brought Susan Sontag and other distinguished authors to the firm, yet many of the big names on his list are either one-shot autobiographers or recruits from his London partners...
Many say Bok's refusal to divest totally of Harvard's South Africa-related investments--despite more than a decade of pressure from campus and alumni activists--is typical of this attitude. The president's stand is so firm that his associates generally refer to divestment as a matter already settled, citing the effort they say Bok has put into examining the issue...