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Last week the Los Angeles city council, responding to complaints from the community, banned overnight sleeping on Venice beach, effective next year. Normally liberal Venice, says City Council Aide Rick Ruiz, has become "caught between its conscience and the impact the homeless have on everyday lives." A more cynical view comes from one of the town's few conservative Republicans, who says, "The liberals got rich...
While Fast Company is not going to make anyone a Vegas-class card-shark overnight, it does provide a refreshing antidote to the self-congratulatory tales of honest, hard-working corporate and political "gamblers...
...Justice Department. In armchairs that faced one another sat Meese, Howard Baker and a clutch of lieutenants. In their midst was Anthony Kennedy, a potential Supreme Court nominee, who had been flown to Washington on an Air Force jet from Sacramento the evening before, carrying only a small overnight bag. The interrogation ran through 21 pages of single-spaced questions. Was your wife pregnant when you married? No. Have you ever visited a massage parlor? No. Have you seen other women since you were married? No. Have you ever participated in group sex? No. Have you ever used cocaine...
Many portfolio managers who became stars during the bull market emerged from the crash notably tarnished. George Soros, 57, who until Black Monday was regarded as one of the canniest investors in Wall Street history, saw his Quantum Fund drop some 36%, to $1.67 billion. Other stars emerged overnight. Elaine Garzarelli, 36, a research analyst and fund manager for Shearson Lehman Bros., had emphatically predicted a collapse exactly one week before Black Monday in an interview on Cable News Network. Her stock fund, the Sector Analysis Portfolio, reportedly gained 5% during the week of the crash because Garzarelli had moved...
...arrival was less than auspicious. A freak autumn fog blanketed Moscow's four airports; Shultz, Carlucci and their 110-member traveling party were forced to make the 700-mile journey from Helsinki to the Soviet capital on an overnight train. When they arrived, they knew that even without the unexpected hitch on Star Wars, sticky details on the INF pact still had to be resolved...