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...changed his life. Eating with Grove most days is like a trip to a vegan commune--tofu, veggies, five servings of fruit a day, a palmful of antioxidant pills. He continues to dig through prostate-cancer research and sits on the board of CapCure, Michael Milken's prostate-cancer foundation. Last spring Grove uncovered a yet-to-be published study showing a link between calcium intake and the spread of prostate cancer to the rest of the body. He rushed to the CapCure doctors and persuaded them to reduce a longstanding recommendation to take calcium supplements. Who could argue with...
...expect a moral to this tale. In the 1980s Gillett was busy building a billion-dollar empire based on the odd combination of meatpacking and television stations, much of it financed by the junk bonds of Drexel Burnham Lambert, led by the now infamous Michael Milken. Drexel pumped out high-risk securities the way snowmaking machines create instant winter. Gillett, a Wisconsin boy, loved to ski, and he loved to ski at Vail, a powdery paradise in the Colorado Rockies. So he bought the joint...
DIED. ARTHUR LIMAN, 64, among his generation's best-known litigators, whose A-list clients included junk-bond king Michael Milken and the Senate Iran-contra committee; of cancer; in New York City. Liman brought a rare exuberance to a career that spanned prosecuting white-collar crime, haranguing Lieut. Colonel Oliver North and investigating the riots at Attica. (The searing Attica report he helped write was nominated for a National Book Award.) The famously disheveled Liman was known for getting so caught up in the advocacy he loved that he sometimes showed up in court with the pants from...
...calls since Ellison was one of his top individual donors in last year's election) and is friends with Jack Kemp, who once sat on his board of directors. Jeff Berg, the Hollywood power agent who represents clients like Julia Roberts and Mel Gibson, is a buddy. Michael Milken, the reclusive financier, is an intimate adviser. Ellison, friends will remind you, is the richest man in California...
Ellison has taken his appetite for teamwork outside Oracle, most prominently in a partnership with Milken to develop educational software. Knowledge Universe, a company the two started in 1996, will use computers to help kids (and their parents) learn faster and better. Together, Milken, Ellison and Apple co-founder Steve Jobs make up something of a billionaire boys' club, gathering to talk about Japanese gardening, molecular biology and their favorite flicks over sushi or macrobiotic soup...