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When he emerges from prison, Milken will remain an extravagantly wealthy man. At the height of his power, from 1983 to 1987, Drexel paid him $1.1 billion for pioneering junk bonds and turning them into Wall Street's most lucrative money machine. Instead of squandering the fortune on yachts and jets, Milken formed investment partnerships that earned him additional millions. But riches will not shield Milken from the loss of his freedom. In an 11-page plea for leniency that he wrote to Wood last month, Milken acknowledged, "All people, I am sure, have a fear of incarceration and separation...
Most Israelis rejected his ideas as unethical, immoral and racist. Kahane ultimately appealed to only a small segment of the Israeli population and the world Jewish community. At the height of his popularity, Kach garnered only about 5 percent of the vote in Israeli parliamentary elections. In 1988, his party lost much of its support when it was barred from elections under the terms of an Israeli law against racist and undemocratic parties...
...crippling symptoms of osteoporosis have become almost synonymous with old age. The dowager's hump, the loss of height, the painful and often debilitating fractures of the spine and hip nearly always occur in elderly women after menopause (as well as in a smaller number of older men). And that age group has been the focus of prevention and treatment efforts...
First, despite the wealth of talents characteristic of this student body, none of us are experts on university governance. Nor are we qualified to judge the character or ability of the many distinguished scholars and administrators that will be considered for the post. Therefore, it is the height of arrogance to claim for ourselves the same voice and vote as experts who have devoted most of their lives to university governance...
Teevens' offense was the height of simplicity. See Page run right. See Page run left. See Page run up the middle. See Page run for a school-record 222 yards on 23 carries to spark Dartmouth's 17-0 hammering of the Crimson (4-3 overall, 2-2 Ivy) that left the Big Green in a first-place tie with Cornell and Yale. Run, Page...