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...five-page personal letter from Steven Ross, chairman and co-chief executive of Time Warner, called Milken "a long-term thinker, not a quick- buck artist." Wrote Ross, who said Milken became a close friend after arranging a 1984 stock offering for the former Warner Communications: "He talks more about illiteracy in math or chronic diseases of the poor or unemployment than about interest rates...
...interest on its $135 billion foreign debt. Even the more stable economies will be badly hurt by the energy price hike. Kenya, for example, will see its oil-import bill increase from $300 million to $400 million a year if the price settles at $25 per bbl. Says Ross Wilson, a consultant at Deloitte, Haskins & Sells in Nairobi: "The question for Kenya is, How many loads can the camel take...
...underworld's most powerful force is the quieter and more sophisticated Genovese clan, with its entrenched army of more than 1,500 "made" members and associated underworld entrepreneurs. "You keep hearing all this crap about Gotti being the boss of the bosses," says Richard Ross, one of the FBI's leading Mafia experts, "but Genovese has always been the country's most powerful family." Says Joseph Coffey, a top investigator at the New York State Organized Crime Task Force: "The Genovese gang more or less invented labor racketeering. I consider them the Ivy League of the underworld...
Like the fish, we are being jollied along. The social scientists call their work an investigation of "man in the round," and though Havel's work is circuitous and full, a more appropriate metaphor might be "man on a merry-go-round." We should all thank Ross for the ride...
...Produced by Monty Ross...