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...never gained much more than a toehold in the U.S., some 2.5 million U.S. school kids play the game. Their fast improving ranks have stocked U.S. college squads and provided the national team with better players than ever before. Another boost for the home team: Mexico, a tough, world-class contender that vies in the same qualifying group as the U.S., was banned from competition for using ineligible players...
...financial profiles of S&L scoundrels who have bled their institutions dry through bad loans and insider dealings. Often court judgments are pending against the culprits, but the regulators or new banks holding the bad notes need to know whether the assets are sizable enough to pursue. "These are world-class con men who were just as sophisticated in hiding their money as they were in committing their fraud," says Pankau, a onetime Internal Revenue Service agent and a trained accountant...
When he gets out, Milken can go back to tending a world-class fortune that began with a $25,000 salary when he joined Drexel Burnham Lambert in 1970. While he was head of Drexel's junk-bond department, his compensation zoomed from $45.7 million in 1983 to more than $550 million in 1987, the highest annual paycheck in corporate history. All told, he earned $1.1 billion during those golden years...
...U.S.S.R. as the father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, then reviled as a traitor for his tireless defense of human rights, recounts his tumultuous life. -- A look at Lavrenti Beria, a "terrifying human being." -- The Oppenheimer-Teller feud. -- The man who poisoned Soviet science. -- Why Sakharov ranks as a world-class scientist...
Most days Hartman is in the thick of it. Invariably dressed in a windbreaker and running shoes, he prowls the classrooms eager for combat. Heated debate is the norm at Hartman's place. Eavesdrop long enough and you will likely hear an eclectic collection of world-class brains clinch philosophical arguments by telling one another they're "full...