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Back at the historical museum, the ironies hit home. Thirty years ago, David Richmond was a radical. By now he should be a hero. Instead, he is unemployed, ready to rake leaves or paint houses to make ends meet. Although his two kids graduated from college, Richmond never did. As he talks, a young man there with his girlfriend looks up from the display. "Are you one of the guys here?" asks Bill Fox, pointing to the life-size photograph. "Wow." As they discuss the sit-ins, Richmond offers some advice about the color line. "You can choose," he says...
Aeneas Venture Corp. Aeneas Holdings Inc., Demeter Holdings Corp., One Eye Corp. and Phemus Corp. are all subsidaries of President and Fellows of Harvard College--the legal entity that operates the entire university. Finanical whizkids Scott M. Sperling and Michael R. Eisenson rake in $1 million a year juggling the risky ventures...
...gangs: Young Boys Inc. and the Pony Down. In the process, he encountered four additional groups. The resulting book, Dangerous Society, published in February by Michigan State University Press, provides a harrowing portrait of how the gangs transformed themselves from opportunistic street punks into sophisticated drug-dealing empires that rake in hundreds of millions a year...
Turnaround experts can rake in hefty fees by representing ailing companies or disgruntled creditors -- or sometimes both. Lawyers and accountants earned nearly $4 million for preparing Campeau's 6,000-page bankruptcy petition in January, and currently share fees that total about $2 million a month for advising the company. The legal and financial specialists who guided Manville Corp. out of bankruptcy in 1988 received $100 million from the asbestos maker. "Every profession in the business of fixing and restructuring troubled companies is going through a sudden growth spurt," says Christopher Beard, publisher of Turnarounds & Workouts, an industry newsletter...
...freshness and decay, virility and impotence. He was not in any real sense a political artist -- unlike his colleague James Gillray. Beneath Rowlandson's comedy there was a clawing, nagging fear of falling apart. As well there should have been, the censorious might add: he was a rake, too fond of cards, women and the bottle for his own good. And his work is full of Dreadful Elders, gouty, poxed, many-chinned, snouted, toothless, cunning, gross and mangy, peering with lust and censure at the beautiful juicy young, who mainly ignore them. This, he keeps saying, is what you will...