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...plot, which authorities say operated independently of the ring associated with Arbitrager Ivan Boesky, was nonetheless based on inside knowledge of U.S. corporate takeovers. As such, it provoked fresh concern in both the U.S. and Britain about the spreading abuse of inside information, which now appears to be virtually a way of life in a growing list of financial institutions. Said John Smith, the British Labor Party's top spokesman on trade and industry: "Quite frankly, it stinks...
...enough new spirit to carry the message right through to the next President, be he Democrat or Republican. Prosperity has been no mere conjurer's trick; it was paid for with a painful recession that was the first valley of the Reagan presidency. Since then, a few rascals like Ivan Boesky have let greed run wild, but most business people got down to work and reaffirmed that the honorable creation of wealth is at the heart of a healthy democracy. The scent of the buck is kindling creativity again even in the depressed farm belt and idled steel valleys...
...THERE more outrage? Demjanjuk is accused of being "Ivan the Terrible," the guard who beat and tortured Jews and ran the gas chambers at Treblinka, one of the most notorious Nazi concentration camps. He is charged with "crimes against the Jewish people, [and] crimes against humanity." He has been positively identified as the infamous "Ivan the Terrible" by the first two witnesses called to the stand...
...Boker Tov," Hebrew for "good morning." He then listens without emotion to the chilling testimony against him, yawning and fiddling with his earphones while those on the stand weep. He even tried to shake the hand of one death camp survivor, who "without the slightest doubt" identified him as Ivan...
...value of Guinness's bid and helped it win Distillers. In the process, though, Guinness allegedly made large illegal purchases of its own stock and paid off other investors to do the same. Among those traders who may have had a secret alliance with Guinness was New York Financier Ivan Boesky, who reportedly confessed his role after being nabbed for his insider-trading activities...