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Laws condemning "baby-selling" only increase the surrogate mother's dilemma: paradoxically, while the courts often view her as a selfish contract-breaker when she sues for some type of parental rights, this new law also condemns her as a selfish slave-trader when she consents to be compensated for the child's loss...
...many elements of Perot's biography have become a standardized recitation: the son of a Texas horse trader (yes, literally) and cotton dealer, Ross learned Norman Rockwell values at home in Texarkana and as an enthusiastic Boy Scout. An Annapolis graduate, he lost his zeal for the Navy because its bureaucracy was stifling, and he tried to get out early. He became a top salesman for IBM, but the company cut his commissions so that he would not earn more than his managers; worse, when he fulfilled his annual quota by Jan. 19, 1962, he was forced to sit idly...
...final chapter to one of Wall Street's many scandals, Wall Street power trader Salomon Brothers agreed to pay a $290 million fine as a settlement to a suit filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission and other government agencies. The investment firm admitted last August it had submitted billions of dollars in phony bids for Treasury notes and bonds. But unlike the benighted houses of E.F. Hutton and Drexel Burnham Lambert, Salomon can take solace in the government's decision not to press criminal charges...
...Eighties are finally over. President Ronald W. Reagan has retired, insider trader Michael Milken is behind bars, and this weekend, the Trump Shuttle will make its final departure...
...Leona ("Only the little people pay taxes") Helmsley and her bragging to a little person who is going to be her undoing. The sense of aloneness is born of a mistrust of underlings, which can approach Howard Hughes' isolationism. The adventure-seeking behavior can be insider trader Dennis Levine plotting to dupe SEC regulators with offshore bank accounts. Pete Rose, Gary Hart, Imelda Marcos, Jimmy Swaggart, Jim Bakker, Ivan Boesky, Michael Milken: they all seem to have committed self-destructive acts that follow on the heels of enormous success. I have never met or treated any of them, but they...