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...When you read the complaint, you'd think Harvard was a widow, an orphan who'd been led down the garden path by Merrill Lynch," Kramer said. "As long as Harvard has access to the information, Merrill Lynch has no responsibility to provide the information. Who has the duty to call the [Securities Exchange Commission] and get that information...
...anguish of the Iran-contra rift with the late CIA director William Casey, whose 1966 congressional campaign Safire managed. Critical columns led to angry phone calls and a shouting match at a party -- all of which Safire recounted in the Times. But Sophia Casey, the CIA director's widow, recalls that her husband to the end "still had a soft spot for Bill Safire...
Even those who planned their escape had harrowing experiences. Last Sunday Marina Chobanyan, a widow, boarded the Baku-Moscow express to flee the gathering storm. She settled into her seat in the tenth car, thankful to be getting out alive; when the train did not leave on schedule, she began to worry. Suddenly a band of Azerbaijanis burst into the car. "I was ordered to hand over all my papers and valuables, including my wedding rings," she said. "I refused, and they dragged me off the train by my hair." Herded through the streets of Baku, Chobanyan and several other...
...participant who welcomes Ulam's heightened status is his widow, Francoise Ulam, who will never forget the day she returned home for lunch to find her husband staring fixedly out the window. "I think I've found the way to make it work," he told her. "Make what work?" "The Super." Teller has partially confirmed his debt to Ulam. After suffering a heart attack in 1979, he dictated an account of the day Ulam walked into his office and said he had a way to make the bomb. Teller, though, heatedly disputes the notion that the key idea was Ulam...
...Corazon Cojuangco's wedding to Benigno Aquino Jr. in 1954, his best friend Salvador Laurel was part of the groom's entourage. When the widow Corazon Aquino ran for President against Ferdinand Marcos in 1986, Laurel stood as her Vice President. But don't let those ties fool you. Doy, as he is known to Filipinos, has chafed at being second best all these years, first to the charismatic Benigno and now to his wife. Accusing Cory of reneging on a promise to let him run the government once the two were elected, he bitterly broke off their alliance...