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...Tuesday Feb. 21, amid the pit's uproar, Leeson replied quite evenly to a question from an A.P.-Dow Jones reporter curious about rumors that the Englishman was making huge purchases on the Japanese and Singapore exchanges on behalf of his London-based investment bank. Leeson coolly explained that he was "buying Nikkei futures here and selling them there." As simple as that, nothing out of the ordinary. One of Leeson's colleagues at another Barings office in Asia told Time of a phone call with Leeson two days later. "He sounded really weird on the phone, like...
...allowed to compete. Appearing with Barbara Walters on abc's 20/20 last Friday in conjunction with the publication this week of his autobiography, Breaking the Surface (Random House; $23), Louganis revealed that he was hiv-positive when he competed in Seoul and that he now has AIDS. Imagine the uproar then-it was cacophonous enough last week-over the cut Louganis received when he hit his head on the springboard during the preliminaries. Carrying his teddy bear with a matching bandage to and from the pool might not have played quite so well, or assuaged the AIDS paranoia...
...that, problems such as the recent uproar over pension cuts and changes in health insurance for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences will probably recur as the president is forced to trim budgets and allocate what he terms increasingly scarce resources...
...Draft, a Leak, an Uproar...
Saatchi's moves sent the advertising world into an uproar and Saatchi & Saatchi stock into a nosedive; it ended last week at 102p on the London Stock Exchange, around 35% below its price in mid-December. Some analysts think that with its charismatic chairman gone, its executive suite half empty and its client list endangered, Maurice's original firm could break...