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...taking advice from someone who did not go to Harvard. Did I have to go here to be here, to contribute here? No. Would I be different if I went here? Perhaps, I don't know. I might be an investment banker. Who knows?" he says...
...1980s. Head was sold to a leveraged buyout firm, Freeman Spogli, in 1989, which unloaded the struggling company on Austria Tabakwerke, a government-owned firm that bought Head to try to keep its manufacturing jobs in Austria. "They did even worse," says Johan Eliasch, a Swedish merchant banker who took over the company in 1996. "They threw money at it, and the company ran up huge losses. Finally, they said, 'Enough is enough...
Carl Kielmann, 73, is a retired banker and the second generation of his family to live at John Knox in the Health Center. He and his wife Lillian moved there in 1985, joining his mother, who was also a resident. His mother's contract with Knox allowed her to spend her last six years in the village medical center without eating up her savings. "In a lot of ways," says Kielmann, "this type of place is your ultimate insurance policy...
...this year, even though two of his musicals, Parade and Fosse, were among the night's big winners. He didn't watch the show on TV either--too painful--though he caught a clip of it on the news up in Toronto. There was Roy Furman, the Wall Street banker in charge of the company Drabinsky had built, accepting the Best Musical award for Fosse, the show Drabinsky had nurtured, and thanking, vaguely, "the people in Toronto who were so helpful in starting this show." For Drabinsky, the "revisionism" is what hurt the most. "It turned my stomach," he says...
John Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and her sister Lauren, a New York City investment banker, arrived in separate cars at New Jersey's Essex County Airport. John had told friends the day before that he was flying straight to Hyannis; the decision to stop in Martha's Vineyard to drop Lauren off may have come at the last minute. But the weather was clear, and the FAA does not require pilots to file a flight plan when visual flight rules are in place...