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...ceremony, dozens of first-years and their families approached the south porch of Memorial Church to hobnob with Harvard's top officials. Rudenstine and Knowles patiently shook hands and chatted with all interested parties before walking off together toward Harvard Yard...
...securities market has been considered the world's safest haven for investors. Unlike stocks and bonds, both of which were plagued by a series of insider-trading cases during the 1980s, the $2.2 trillion market for Treasury instruments was thought to be too big to rig. The Salomon scandal shook that conventional wisdom and aroused suspicion that other firms might be playing similar games. Consequently, an intimidating array of investigations by the Federal Reserve Bank, the Justice Department, the Securities and Exchange Commission -- where enforcement director William McLucas is personally heading the inquiry -- and the New York Stock Exchange were...
...with Yeltsin. As for the surviving plotters, all of whom had been arrested by week's end, they were facing not only treason trials but also the knowledge that their mismanaged coup had intensified the move toward democracy and decentralization they had tried to stop. The three days that shook the world were over...
...women. A generation of civil rights lawyers flocked to Marshall throughout the 1950s, when he still possessed dark, wavy hair and the stamina for long nights of poker and bourbon. He ran his office in the earthy style he would later bring to the Supreme Court, where he once shook up protocol-conscious Chief Justice Warren Burger by greeting him in the halls with a shout of, "What's shakin', Chiefie, baby...
...Some guy approached the stage, took off his robe and accepted his degree while he was stark naked," Wilson says. "He shook hands with the dean and walked passed Liz Claiborne and Senator [Claiborne] Pell [(D-R.I.)] without wearing anything--and no one even blinked an eyelid at the whole thing. I thought it was hilarious...