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Anthony Forstmann, 46, and Joel Left, 48. The two partners in Manhattan- based Forstmann-Leff Associates are known in pension-fund circles as "the flashy ones." They wear designer suits, travel around the U.S. in Learjets and chauffeured Mercedes-Benz limousines and own Thoroughbred horses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Billion-Dollar Boys | 1/9/1984 | See Source »

...dynamic stimulation of the games to foster learning without drudgery. Sylvia Weir, a research associate at M.I.T., showed a film of an educational video game in which the user experiences the principles of Newtonian physics. One scientist indicated that the games are already serving those hardest to educate. Stephen Leff, of the Harvard Medical School, reported preliminary findings that video games' "massive capacity for eliciting attention" helped stimulate the chronically mentally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Donkey Kong Goes to Harvard | 6/6/1983 | See Source »

...received several stays in the execution of his sentence. But even though he gave the SEC sealed testimony on G&W's transactions that Stanley Sporkin, the boss of the commission's division of enforcement, called "reliable and objective," New York State Supreme Court Justice James Leff ordered that Dolkart begin serving his time this week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Blues for Mr. Charlie | 7/18/1977 | See Source »

Earnings Heartache. In an angry mood, Judge Leff said, "The real danger is the cynicism that is engendered when, at the level at which this kind of fraud takes place, the general public believes that ultimately there isn't any effective sanction which will punish or which will be feared by these corporate thieves." Nonetheless, the appellate court agreed to give Dolkart yet another stay, pending an appeal of his sentence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Blues for Mr. Charlie | 7/18/1977 | See Source »

Among the dozen candidates in the Democratic primary, Markey was generally perceived as the second most liberal, Jack Leff, a former state secretary of elder affairs, was known as the candidate who was farthest to the left, but also was viewed as having little chance of winning in the suburban, heavily working-class district. Markey, however, was thought to have a better chance of winning, and had drawn support from several local politicians who were well respected in liberal circles. Perhaps the most prominent Markey supporters were Representative Michael J. Harrington '58, a Democrat who represents the North Shore district...

Author: By David B. Hilder, | Title: Ed Markey: The milkman's son who broke the rules | 11/22/1976 | See Source »

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