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...manage the buyout's junk-bond financing. KKR contends that only Drexel has the savvy to sell the record $5 billion in high-yield bonds that is needed. But RJR Nabisco's managers are concerned that the buyout could be jeopardized if Drexel and Michael Milken, its junk-bond wizard, are indicted for securities fraud, which is expected to occur soon...
...young computer wizard, who worked at Harvard's Aiken Computation Labs as late as this summer, also proved that current computer networks are designed so that one computer can easily be used to break through its own security...
Friends of Morris at Harvard have said that the young computer wizard, fatigued from lack of sleep, made an error in his program that caused the virus to run amok, crippling literally thousands of mainframe computer systems...
...alternatives, never settling for the obvious." McFerrin, 38, has been a musician for all his professional life and a singer for more than a decade. From his first big-time gig, playing piano in the Ice Follies band, to his current in-concert, one-man musical parody of The Wizard of Oz, he has never settled for anything less than unique...
Michael Milken, the most powerful financier of the 1980s, was limping when he entered a mid-Manhattan office last Wednesday to meet with TIME Senior Correspondent Frederick Ungeheuer for a rare interview. The 42-year-old junk- bond wizard was recovering, he explained, from knee surgery to remove cartilage he had torn in a backyard basketball game at his suburban Los Angeles home. Looking tanned and relaxed, Milken did not know that he was minutes away from being slammed with one of the most sweeping stock-fraud lawsuits in Wall Street history...