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...Michael Milken, have been subpoenaed by the SEC, an action that does not imply guilt of any kind. Even so, Milken has reportedly hired three of the country's top criminal lawyers, Edward Bennet Williams, Arthur Liman and Martin Flumenbaum, to represent him before the SEC and in a parallel federal grand jury investigation. In December, Drexel Burnham Chief Executive Frederick Joseph publicly admitted that for a time, when Milken lined up potential buyers for takeover junk bonds, the investment bank would supply these would-be customers with a sealed envelope containing the name of the target corporation. Joseph said...
Pountney's Carmen took an even more radical view. Rather than discovering a parallel setting, the director simply created one, reveling in the anachronism. The gypsy girls, now prostitutes, conducted their business in the back seats of cars, and the bullfighters in the final act made their entrance in motley cholo low riders. So far, so shocking -- but only if one believes that Carmen is about the working conditions in Spanish cigarette factories, instead of sexual obsession, violence and death. In fact Pountney did not go far enough. Micaela -- a character not found in Merimee's gritty original novella...
Some middle-class whites think AIDS only infects gays and poor minority- group members. "People believe that the higher the cover charge at a bar, the less likely they're going to run into AIDS," says Anna Gomez, 29, in South Miami's Parallel Bar. Says Playwright (Torch Song Trilogy) and Gay Activist Harvey Fierstein: "It's very hard for straight people to understand what the hell this is. The ugliness of the disease is that every stranger has it; everyone you like doesn't have...
Would Harvard's Jewish community stand by if a swastika were being displayed in someone's window? This is not a trite parallel. Both symbols stand for a hatred and violence that has not died...
...analyses. In 1923-24, for example, she made her famous and tortured marriage to Bror Blixen and her doomed affair with Denys Finch Hatton the subjects of a brief, piercing look at Eros from the inside. Scrutinizing the relation of morality to marriage, she concluded that the two are parallel but rarely converge, and that George Bernard Shaw was right when he said that confusing them had done "more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error." Dinesen adds, "Even these old champions of marriage, who think they are on secure moral ground, must...