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While Starks will begin working as an investment banker next fall, he said he plans to continue advocating for reparations for blacks. But first he says he will figure out how to spend his prize money...
...stylish grandmother of five who wears Armani suits and a permanent moonbeam smile, Pelosi, 62, grew up in Baltimore, Md., where both her father and brother served as mayor. She moved to California in 1969 with her husband, a San Francisco investment banker, and toiled as a party activist and fundraiser before running for Congress in 1987. Her signature issues--human rights, aids funding, environmental protection--put her as far as any Representative from DeLay, a pro-business Christian conservative from Sugar Land, Texas, whose nickname is "the Hammer" because of his take-no-prisoners approach to politics...
Spitzer has discovered that Blodget, who remained publicly optimistic about Internet stocks, nevertheless harbored significant private doubts about the companies he was touting. InfoSpace, a company that retained Merrill Lynch as its banker, received a favorable rating from Blodget even as its stock fell from a high of $80 in early 2000 to under $13 by the end of that year. In e-mails uncovered by Spitzer, Blodget describes the company as a “powder keg” and a “piece of junk,” expressing serious doubts about the company?...
...smartly dressed middle-aged man, looking a bit like a banker, charges past rows of salad dressing and diapers in the suburban Virginia Safeway, a plastic grocery basket swinging at his side. He scans the produce section until he finds what he has come for: turnips. He examines them one by one. "Too big means the root is too tough inside, too small you've got nothing left once it's peeled," the man explains as he fills up a plastic bag and twists it closed...
...time in living memory. But thanks to a 1999 revision of the bankruptcy law there was a chance that the company could emerge from bankruptcy relatively intact, unlike many previous failures that were shuttered and sold. "It's a turning point, not an ending point," said Wolfgang Hartmann, a banker who acts as spokesman for Kirch's creditors...