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...thereby driving down its value. According to the Wall Street Journal, the big winners have included billion-dollar hedge funds headed by such famed managers as George Soros and Julian Robertson; Robertson's Tiger Management fund reportedly raked in some $150 million in 10 days of trading. Says Peter Morgan, an economist for Merrill Lynch in Tokyo: "There is a feeling that speculative forces are challenging the central banks just as they did in 1992," when Britain was forced to devalue the pound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BANGED-UP BUCK | 3/20/1995 | See Source »

...Army doctor, is the only person with the expertise, the guts and, dammit, the nobility to solve this apocalyptic poser. Screenwriters Laurence Dworet and Robert Roy Pool have given him a requisition brainy-dishy ex-wife (Rene Russo), an agitated boss (Morgan Freeman), a helpful colleague (Kevin Spacey, who is very good) and plucky Major Salt to steer Sam through an unlikely airplane battle at the climax. But in movies like this, a man must stand alone. It's a mild hoot to watch Certified Great Actor Hoffman play an action hero. Note the Clint-like glint in his eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THIS VIRUS ISN'T CATCHING | 3/20/1995 | See Source »

starring Dustin Hoffman, Morgan Freeman and Rene Russo...

Author: By Alexa Zesiger, | Title: A Heavy Dose of Dustin | 3/16/1995 | See Source »

...Morgan Freeman is excellent as Hoffman's supervisor torn between ethics and orders, as they try to contain the virus...

Author: By Alexa Zesiger, | Title: A Heavy Dose of Dustin | 3/16/1995 | See Source »

...saying that if you are working class, you don't deserve a top job, that you should work as a dustman or a shop assistant." Leeson never attended college. At 18 he became a junior clerk at Coutts & Co., another prestigious bank. In 1987 he became a clerk at Morgan Stanley. That American corporate pedigree, a mark of aggressiveness, was enough to help him land a job at Barings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nicholas Leeson: GOING FOR BROKE | 3/13/1995 | See Source »

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