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...Boesky, but they were trapped, almost by chance, in the widening network of information that the investigators were gathering. Their arrests seemed to confirm what many bankers and investors had long feared: in the frenetic climate of Wall Street's protracted bull market, insider trading had become a spreading stain with the potential to blacken the reputation of the entire financial community...
...been around in the colonial days and stayed on after independence, the visitor caught the vibration of a nostalgia so radical that it strained all the way back to the Pleistocene. They had no use for people anymore. They seemed to wish to cleanse the earth of the human stain, and restore it to preconscious innocence...
Although the legacy of the transportation system is strong, Australians have been eager to obliterate what came to be known as the "hated stain." They succeeded so well that there was no comprehensive popular history of the country's penal-colony origins until Robert Hughes, art critic of TIME and author of The Shock of the New, finished his project, which he began more than a decade...
...amiably sleepy town of about 2,000 souls (all of Forsyth County has only 38,000). Its biggest employer is a poultry-processing plant; its biggest social activity for adolescents is drag-racing outside the K mart. But for all its bucolic torpor, Cumming bears a dark stain on its history: an 18-year-old white woman was beaten and raped there one day in 1912 and, before she died, named three blacks as her attackers. One was lynched, the other two tried and hanged before a gloating crowd. There were so many threats against the remaining 1,000 blacks...
...familiar with the Boesky case probably speaks truly when he observes that "we may well get a whole string of new laws or regulations. Whether they're fundamental changes, however, depends on whether the public will care enough to push for them." In that regard, the widening stain surrounding Ivan Boesky may be serving a perverse kind of service to the integrity of the marketplace. If the shock and dismay engendered by his case are bolstered by further disclosures, popular indignation could guarantee a regulatory shakeup. It may be that further fallout resulting from Boesky's cooperation with the authorities...