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...trustees helped to boost the organization's finances by soliciting contributions from alumni at a posh New York cocktail party. The event was attended by the likes of Robert Bly '50, Louis Begley '54, Norman K. Mailer '43, Conan C. O'Brien '85 and Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38; alumni gave $50,000 to the Advocate...
...Angeles' latest shrine to the good life. At 10 o'clock on a weeknight, poolside is alive with people drinking and smoking and looking superb. Some are rich, but many more are having fun pretending. Five years after rioting tore this city apart, they are lounging on huge, posh communal beds, sipping their drinks, floating in the bubble of this long good run and wondering, some of them, when it will burst. They thought the crunch was coming when the market got rocked last month, but it didn't and it hasn't, and now some experts...
After years of cultivating politicians and federal judges--West regularly flew members of the judiciary to posh retreats--Opperman had other chits to call in. Judges, Congressmen and thousands of West employees sent letters and made calls to Justice to plead Opperman's case. In February the department formally abandoned any online plans that would have undercut his company. Justice officials said cost and complexity, not political influence, determined the outcome. West soon thereafter won a $14.2 million contract to provide Justice with online legal research. Not only that, but the department's antitrust investigation never seemed...
...case you were blissly biking across Europe last week or adrift on a Carnival cruise through the Caribbean, a mass suicide took place Wednesday in a mansion in posh Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., a San Diego suburb...
...laid waste the economy. In 1994 Zaire's per capita GNP was $125 (70% lower than it was in 1958), and prices rose an average of 23,773%, the highest level ever recorded anywhere. Industry runs at 10% capacity--which means that while the wives of government ministers peruse posh Kinshasa boutiques for $2,000 dresses imported from Europe, 80% of the population can't find jobs...