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...question being asked by Berenson's family and friends in the U.S. is how this "warm and friendly"--Radosh's words--middle-class American woman with every prospect of success in life landed in such a fix. Born to two college instructors--her father Mark teaches statistics--and raised in Manhattan, Lori was a good student at La Guardia High School of Music and Art. A whiz also at science and math, she enrolled at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
Even if the appeal succeeds, however, it will probably result at best in reducing her term to 20 years. Berenson's only chance of a shorter sentence is clemency from President Alberto Fujimori, and the prospect is considered highly unlikely...
...into the health-care business to get rich. But that system was very inefficient." Now the reverse is true, he argues. When he took his company public, his holdings became worth $150 million. "We all got very rich," he says, his delight bubbling out in a chuckle. The prospect of such wealth, Dr. Hasan argues, helped managed-care companies draw the best executives, who in turn applied corporate stratagems to compel doctors to become more efficient. "It's no longer a gentleman's club," he says. "And I see that as a very positive development." A merger with QualMed would...
...dropped 35 points. By the end of trading, the Dow Jones industrial average had plunged 97.19 points, a steep decline that compounded a 67.55-point drop on Tuesday. It was the ninth-worst point drop ever, and the biggest since budget negotiations stalled on December 18. In shattering the prospect of the first balanced budget in three decades, the Speaker's remarks helped deepen investor pessimism about economic prospects. "What we're hearing from the market is that the absence of a budget deal will lead to higher interest rates," reports Deputy Chief of Correspondents Rick Hornick. "That would lead...
...leaders of Israel and Jordan looked across the waters toward Damascus and called upon Syria to reach peace with Israel. Secretary of State Warren Christopher joined Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres and Jordan's King Hussein in inviting Syrian President Hafez Assad to seize what Peres called "the galloping prospect of peace." Christopher on Friday will travel to Damascus to try to persuade Assad to follow Hussein and reach a peace agreement with Israel. "Hussein's visit, his first since Yitzhak Rabin's funeral, is seen by the local commentators as sending a clear message to Assad to join...