Word: kids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...such trading, advertently or not, by failing to maintain the so-called Chinese walls of discretion between their investment-banking divisions and their trading departments. That may have been the case in one of the insider-trading arrangements allegedly started by Martin Siegel, the former Kidder, Peabody merger whiz kid who pleaded guilty Feb. 13 to charges of illegal stock trading and tax evasion. The Wall Street Journal reported last week that Kidder, Peabody's chief executive, Ralph DeNunzio, ordered Siegel in March 1984 to create an arbitrage department to speculate on takeover stocks, and to keep this special assignment...
Well, maybe. But it will give me a warm feeling to think that some day in the future, as some child looks upward at the stars and asks himself, "God, why am I here?", the answer will be an unknowable truth that only I will harbor: "Because of Fury, Kid...
...good kid, a first class kid," Belmonte says. "He was a marginal student, very marginal. His father wanted him to come to Harvard badly. [Then-Dean of Admissions] Fred Jewett gave me a signal that Bobby wouldn't be right for Harvard...
...spends a good deal of time on the road, going to games and tournaments, searching for the kid who meet Harvard's athletic and academic standards...
...kid was trying to decide between Yale, Princeton and Harvard, I could be 95 percent sure he'd pick Harvard," Belmonte said. "But when he was being recruited for scholarship schools like Wisconsin and North Dakota, it was another story. Some parents look at [paying for Harvard] versus a full ride...