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...students must have an idea approved first by Spruance, who consults only with the student president. The important role of Spruance, who is in her mid-40's, is the most ready example of the control placed on the students at HSA--an organization that bills itself as "a million-dollar corporation run by 20-year-olds...
...giddy rise of the stock market, no figures have been so celebrated -- and so scorned -- as the precocious young brokers and investment bankers reveling in million-dollar co-ops, BMWs and American Express Gold Cards. These are the yuppies, the generation of boastful baby boomers who had never before known a bear market. But last week's wild market gyrations, coming on top of recent layoffs on Wall Street, have left them breathless. "All of a sudden, people in my age group have come of age," says Ian Wiener, 26, a portfolio manager for Clemente Capital, a Manhattan money-management...
Minkow made himself over too. A scrawny, hyperactive youth, he became a body builder to attract girls. "I was no James Bond in high school," he told an interviewer. "I wanted the attention." He drove a bright red Ferrari, lived a bachelor's life in a million-dollar home and lolled around in a backyard swimming pool with a big black Z on the bottom...
Colonel Diaz, meanwhile, had barricaded himself with a group of armed supporters in his garish million-dollar Panama City mansion -- a domicile the newly religious and repentant military man now admits was paid for with bribes. "This is an illegitimate government that has created an institutionalized crisis," he told TIME. "I knew that the only way to change the system is to get rid of Noriega." He hopes he can foment a rebellion that will bring down the general. In addition to his accusations concerning Torrijos, Diaz charged that Noriega helped rig the 1984 presidential elections and that the Defense...
Everyone overlooked the fact that he was a career .239 hitter. And only a few months after the Astros signed him to a million-dollar deal, they dropped him like a lead weight...