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...early-morning sweeps, London police arrested Kevin and Ian Maxwell, sons of disgraced tycoon Robert Maxwell, and his former financial adviser, Larry Trachtenberg. The three face a total of 15 charges of theft and conspiracy to defraud involving $260 million ((pounds)140 million), some from pension funds. The alleged offenses took place in the months before and just after Maxwell's death...
...moment, Vice President Dan Quayle is doing most of the heavy political lifting, arousing the G.O.P. faithful by labeling Perot a "temperamental tycoon" and attacking totems of the "cultural elite," from Murphy Brown to Time Warner and its rap recording artist Ice-T, as out of touch with family values. Bush likes to pretend he finds such negative tactics distasteful. When encouraged to comment on his sidekick's speeches, Bush is careful to distance himself with such lines as, "You better ask Mr. Quayle." But the Vice President isn't free-lancing; Bush campaign chairman Bob Teeter personally approved Quayle...
...means available, who sees rivals as evil conspirators to be crushed, and who pursues astonishingly meanspirited vendettas against anyone who crosses him, even in petty matters. Vice President Dan Quayle even warned that "it would be a very bad idea to replace a genuine statesman with some temperamental tycoon who has contempt for the Constitution of the United States...
Last Saturday was dubbed Perot Petition Day, and volunteers from Massachusetts People for Peort scoured town halls, shopping malls, even dumps to gather signatures to put the business tycoon--who has not yet declared his candidacy--on the ballot. In Cambridge, volunteers hit Harvard , Porter and Central Squares...
...confounded now? Those familiar questions were posed anew but not answered in SHIMADA, an Australian hit that arrived on Broadway last week with a starry cast (Ben Gazzara, Ellen Burstyn, Estelle Parsons and Mako) and a gongs-and-samurai dreamscape production. The plot hinged on hints that a Japanese tycoon who bids on a clapped-out bicycle factory may also be the stockade guard who tortured its founder (as recalled in gruesome flashback). But that identity was never settled. The larger debate was too relentlessly evenhanded to change minds, and the show closed...