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...dollar squarely in the sights of speculators, who have been dumping the currency on foreign-exchange markets and thereby driving down its value. According to the Wall Street Journal, the big winners have included billion-dollar hedge funds headed by such famed managers as George Soros and Julian Robertson; Robertson's Tiger Management fund reportedly raked in some $150 million in 10 days of trading. Says Peter Morgan, an economist for Merrill Lynch in Tokyo: "There is a feeling that speculative forces are challenging the central banks just as they did in 1992," when Britain was forced to devalue...
Sacks frequently befriends the people in his care. He brings them souvenirs from his travels and calls long distance to see how they are doing. "He is probably the most caring, sensitive doctor that we have ever met," says Sister Theresa Robertson of New York City's Little Sisters of the Poor, a home for the aged. It's an unglamorous practice that Sacks maintains despite his considerable financial success. He has little regard for status. There are no diplomas on the walls of his Greenwich Village office. He has lost track of where his credentials are. Politics and organizations...
...from a small community. I am sure there are folks that, if I went to high school with and they were on my jury, they might lean a little my way. Would any one of you tend to lean a little bit toward Mr. Beasley?" The judge was William Robertson, 51, a former law partner of Beasley's, and a protege in Little League baseball ("He was a hero we looked up to," the judge says of Beasley). In less than 24 hours the defendants-accused of violating state laws by requiring borrowers to take out life insurance policies...
...getting the best legal education available-the percentage of the school's students who passed the July 1994 Virginia bar exam was the lowest in the state, and the institution is still only provisionally accredited by the American Bar Association-but they are receiving training that Robertson believes is essential. Himself a 1955 graduate of Yale Law School who failed the New York bar exam and never practiced, Robertson says the problem with his legal education was that "I wasn't sure what the purpose of life was, or what I could do with the truths I was learning...
...just want to see a level playing field for people of all faiths," says Robertson, whose own ACLJ sports the motto "To defend the rights of believers." The handsome suite of 20 ACLJ offices, in the new Regent Law School building dedicated by Dan Quayle in 1994, looks like any other prosperous law firm, with leather couches and Daumier prints. The desk of ACLJ's executive director, Keith Fournier, bears a sign that reads FAITHFULNESS NOT SUCCESS, yet the center's chief council, Jay Sekulow, has gone an impressive three for three arguing religious-speech cases before the Supreme Court...