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...certain whether North is a cause or an effect, a Lone Ranger who rode out of control or a good soldier who followed orders from above. He is an unknown who emerged from the shadows into the spotlight of what quickly became the biggest Washington scandal in more than a decade and threatens to preoccupy Americans in the year to come...
Others Who Stood in History's Spotlight...
...curtain's coming down, I may never see the spotlight again. The only way to get people's attention again was to start saying how much contempt I still had for Duluth. To start flaying, to try to get people to pay attention...
...meeting Boesky held on Thursday at the office of his lawyers in downtown Manhattan. In attendance were some of the 43 limited partners who had anted up $221 million in capital for his major arbitrage fund, Ivan F. Boesky & Co. L.P. Boesky's tribulations had cast an unwelcome spotlight on a heterogeneous group of investors who suddenly found themselves unwitting participants in the scandal. The list of partners included several high- profile companies, such as Rapid-American (investment in Boesky: $5 million) and National Can ($6.5 million). Prominent individuals ranged from Manhattan Investor Jeffry Picower ($28 million) to Martin Peretz...
Although it had no apparent connection to the Middle East's brutal politics of terror and revenge, the murder of Besse was particularly chilling. A highly respected executive, Besse was beginning to improve loss-riddled Renault's fortunes. He had had little involvement in politics and avoided the public spotlight, preferring instead to spend his free time tending the roses at his country home southwest of Paris. The businessman was just steps from his town house in Paris' Montparnasse district last Monday night when two women emerged from the shadows. "It's good, let's go!" one of them shouted...