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Last week, the City Council decided to allow Rabbi Shmuel Posner and the Chabad House of Greater Boston to place a menorah on city property in Harvard Square. Posner said he leads both a congregation and an organization for the promotion of Jewish religious observance in the area...
...reap millions of dollars in illicit profits. Five others were charged as participants in Drexel's schemes: Milken's younger brother Lowell, an attorney who works in the company's junk-bond department; Cary Maultasch and Pamela Monzert, traders for the firm; and the Miami-based industrialist Victor Posner and his son Steven...
...made to look tired and behave with moral myopia. Can't Isabelle see that the European author (Jeroen Krabbe) who courts her is just one more serpent-eyed wordsmith who would flatter a pretty woman's intellect to soften her resolve? Can't she tell that sweet-souled Sam Posner (Peter Riegert), a pickle salesman from the old neighborhood, is the guy for her? Isabelle's Yiddishe grandma (Reizl Bozyk) can tell, in cliches that fall from her lips like ripe plums...
...week the performer pirouetted his way onto Soviet TV in Pepsi commercials featuring slogans like "The new generation chooses Pepsi" that were superimposed in Russian. The ads, along with commercials for Visa credit cards and Sony TV sets, appeared in a series of talk shows with Soviet Commentator Vladimir Posner as host. He interviewed Americans in Seattle on subjects ranging from sex to presidential politics. The ads marked the first time that companies have been allowed to buy time on Soviet...
...advertisers were recruited by Global American Television, a small company based in Colrain, Mass., and co-producer of several public affairs programs that have appeared on both U.S. and Soviet TV. Global American arranged for PepsiCo, Visa and Sony to buy ten minutes on Posner's shows for $20,000 a minute, in contrast with up to $800,000 a minute that advertisers pay for prime time on U.S. networks. Still, said Posner, "we can make some money out of this...