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Speaking by phone from Toronto, Hugh Silk '91, who has helped Sword found a private youth service called Serve Canada, said Sword had resigned after a special meeting of the five staff members of the new service earlier this month...
...down as a group, and David offered to resign, and we all decided that was the best thing," Silk said...
...pupil (and, boy, does she teach him a thing or two!). She recharges an old romance with a fabulously wealthy financier. She eludes the entire Nassau County police department. And, oh, yes, she catches the killer. Isaacs' heroines are never the usual trophy wives (she can't make a silk purse out of a Coach bag); instead they are a prize greater than rubies. In the fight against women with skinny thighs and no love handles, they always win (hence the fantasy quality of Isaacs' fiction). Accents from Queens and Brooklyn may flavor their speech, but they are aristocrats...
Then there were the helicopter trips, the accounts at Tiffany and Cartier for Empire employees and directors, the fleet of 123 cars, the $130,000 in art and sculpture, the $62,832 in tacky silk plants, the $48,000 in computer and security systems in Cardone's home and so on. As part of an aborted redesign of his office, the imperious Cardone bought a $20,000 Chippendale desk, which was placed in storage and never used...
Exactly 23 years ago, in this very building, I was sitting in your seat. Today I report to you on my two-decade reconnaissance expedition into the world beyond McGill College Avenue. Like Marco Polo, I return -- without silk, but with three pieces of sage advice...