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Steiner was born in Mt. Vernon, N.Y. and grew up in New York City where he attended Columbia Grammar School. As an undergraduate at Harvard, he played freshman basketball and, later, house intramurals...
...thought the judge was very fair," remarked former Dallas thrift owner Don R. Dixon last week. Fair and then some. Dixon was convicted last December on federal charges that he used funds from his Vernon Savings & Loan $2 million to pay for a California beach house and $10,000 for prostitutes for board members. Though Vernon's former chairman, Woody Lemons, had been sentenced to 30 years, U.S. district court Judge A. Joe Fish gave Dixon only five years, pointing out that the jury had not found him responsible for Vernon's $1.3 billion failure. Dixon could be paroled after...
...Assad as a move to bolster the Arab coalition against Iraq. But government sources have disclosed that the U.S. forged an opening to Syria more than nine months before the invasion of Kuwait. The quiet initiative began with a letter from President Bush delivered to Assad by special envoy Vernon Walters in 1989. The Administration then reached an understanding with the Syrians that Damascus would not obstruct U.S.-sponsored peace talks between Israeli officials and Palestinians. In return, Walters pledged that Washington would tolerate Assad's strengthening of his influence over Lebanon and would urge the Israelis to acquiesce...
...talk to some people," says Vernon. We move back out to the street. A little boy wearing a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle T-shirt taps me on the leg. He asks me if I am a reporter. "I guess," I tell him. "Tov, zeh heleck may ha-til [This is part of the missile]," he says, as he produces a contorted burned SCUD remain, "Birtzinut? [Is it really]", I ask, "Betach! [of course]" he responds, very matter of factly...
...that I'd help him up. He begins to explain to me what the explosion had felt like in his home, which was about 50 yards from ground zero. His ears are still ringing, he says, and I have to shout so he can hear me. Vernon writes furiously. "Yihiye beseder [it will be fine]," I try to reassure the Cohens. Then the medics come in and take them away...