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Soviet foreign-policy specialists, who several years ago relished debating geopolitics and ballistic-missile throw weight, would now rather lament the surfeit of nearly worthless rubles or the possibility that the Communist Party will split into two (or six or 20) new parties...
...indicted on racketeering charges last year, Milken promised to post $700 million to keep prosecutors from seizing his assets. So far he has handed over $300 million in cash plus an IOU for another $300 million. The remaining $100 million was in the form of Drexel stock, which became worthless when the firm went bankrupt last February. Result: Milken has in effect put up half of his $600 million fine...
...thing you might have done differently was not to take your own $2.5 million bonus in the form of Drexel stock, which is now virtually worthless...
Lynch, who has been divorced twice and is now involved with actress Isabella Rossellini, was born in Missoula, Mont. His father, a research scientist for the Department of Agriculture, moved the family several times around the Pacific Northwest before settling in Washington, D.C. Lynch found high school "worthless" but put up with it, then went to art school in Boston. After a brief sojourn in Austria, he moved to Philadelphia to study at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts...
...told that my decision was foolish, and my concentration, academically worthless. By studying a variety of disciplines, I am merely training in "sophistry, if you will." By reading the works of 19th century philosophers, I am simply ensuring that my "scrutiny can proceed free of vulgar issues about facts and the dreary methods required to determine them...