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Keller has turned to noted defense attorney Charles "Chip" Babcock - he represented Oprah Winfrey in 1998 when the talk-show host was unsuccessfully sued for slander by Texas cattlemen. Babcock told the American-Statesman that he will question the "myth" of the computer problem and the last-minute actions of Richard's appellate lawyers. "I think our version is going to be that they just didn't do their job that day," Babcock said. It is a tactic that Neal Manne, representing the Texas Defender Service, rejects as a "sideshow" designed to deflect from the real issue - Judge Keller...
...that [my relationship is] not legitimate because I don't have it on Facebook," says Annie Geitner, a college sophomore who has had the same boyfriend for more than a year. "So that made me even more determined to not to put it up there." Others, like Trevor Babcock, consider the Facebook status a relationship deal-breaker. "I'm not willing to date anyone exclusively unless she feels comfortable going Facebook-public," he says...
...idea behind the Macquarie model is to borrow a lot of money cheaply, buy infrastructure assets with a guaranteed cash flow, then sell those assets to the public, letting shareholders take over the debt. Macquarie and imitators like Australia's Babcock & Brown make money at every step, with fees for the deal, for advice, and for managing the assets. Macquarie runs toll roads in America, bridges in Portugal, French autoroutes, a tunnel in Germany, and airports from Sydney to Copenhagen. About 290 million people ride its buses each year, and 17 million light...
...Wall Street's problems and $14 billion in cash, the bank can easily refinance debts. The recent credit crunch, however, has made the market cautious. On Oct. 14 Macquarie Group's shares were trading at around $24 ($A35), two-thirds off their peak of $85 in May 2007. And Babcock & Brown had tumbled from around...
...much softness in Ask for It: How Women Can Use the Power of Negotiation to Get What They Really Want (Bantam) by Linda Babcock and Sara Laschever. "We know that this is true--that women don't ask for what they want and need, and suffer severe consequences as a result." They are particularly tenacious about curing the common female failure to negotiate salaries, which they warn is "outrageously expensive for women." The book offers a four-phase program to toughen up women to negotiate on their own behalf. Babcock, an economics professor at Carnegie Mellon, bases her recommendations...