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School briefs are enlivened and focused with anecdotes and sage quotes from jaded codgers. What former New York Stock Exchange Chairman Bernard J. ("Bunny") Lasker said just before the bull market of the mid-'70s would be true enough in the '80s: "I can feel it coming, SEC or not, a whole new round of disastrous speculation, with all the familiar stages in order -- blue-chip boom, then a fad for secondary issues, then an over-the-counter play, then another garbage market in new issues, and finally the inevitable crash...
After 13 months of anticipation and delays, Wall Street's most spectacular speculator -- and insider trader -- finally heard his fate. Hands clutched behind his back, Ivan Boesky, 50, listened pensively while U.S. District Court Judge Morris Lasker told a packed courtroom in Manhattan, "Criminal behavior such as Boesky's cannot go unchecked. Its seriousness was too substantial merely to forgive and to forget." With that the judge sentenced the onetime superstar investor to three years in prison for his role in the largest insider-trading scandal in history...
...spotlight will be back on the scandal once again this week, when the biggest insider trader snared so far, Ivan Boesky, is scheduled to appear in U.S. District Judge Morris Lasker's Manhattan courtroom for sentencing. Boesky, who has been pointing investigators toward investment bankers and others with whom he traded inside information, faced Judge Lasker last week in a final hearing before sentencing. Once Wall Street's most aggressive speculator in takeover stocks, Boesky was a picture of contrition in court. "I am deeply ashamed," he said. "I have spent the last year trying to understand how I veered...
...collected works of Steven Spielberg. Like E.T., this is the story of a childlike alien and his lonely human friend who must protect the creature, like a wise father with a brilliant, battered child, and then set it free. But Writers Stanley Weiser and Lawrence Lasker (WarGames) resist nearly every temptation to truckle, and Director Jonathan Kaplan (Heart Like a Wheel) finds each scene's emotional core while surrounding it with meticulous technique. But the film is Broderick's. A great listener, he can make a colloquy with a chimp seem like the meeting of true souls. This time...
Fourty-two Lasker winners have gone on to win Nobel Prizes...