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...this a vote of confidence or something darker? "What John Malone giveth, John Malone can taketh away," says Porter Bibb, a media-investment banker at Ladenburg, Thalmann who has been a frequent critic of Levin's. Bibb believes that Malone saw the merger as an avenue to power. "Levin is now a puppet on Malone's strings. Malone is never going to be CEO of Time Warner. He'll probably never sit on the board. But he wanted to control Levin, and now he does." A scenario even has Malone divesting some cable interests, getting back his voting stock...
...result is a confusing mesh of stories and voices, no one listening to the others, but doing everything they can to relate whatever it is they must to get done. The industrious banker has no time to hear of his wife's travels and she won't let him work. The banker's secretary is behind on the acceptance speech he must write for his bosses' recent award (the ceremony is set for that afternoon) and every distraction seems to be the last he can endure...
Soon an orphaned woman arrives to claim compensation for her husband's injuries speaking of "the office of certification" and other nonsensical entities entirely unrelated to any bank, the banker and least of all the stressed secretary. Once again chaos reigns...
...Cafe. "But you can sit at the computer and discuss world politics with the people next to you or people in Singapore." Many singles, in fact, are finding cyberboites a congenial place for real, as opposed to virtual, mingling. It is such a nonintimidating atmosphere, says Joyce Frost, a banker and first-time visitor to @ Cafe, who views cafes like this as a good place to strike up conversations. "I can talk to a guy and ask him to explain this or that to me. It has more of a focal point than most bars...
...point of leaving his post as the State Department's Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs. His relationship with Secretary of State Warren Christopher and National Security Adviser Anthony Lake was rocky, and Wall Street, where he had carved out a lucrative career as an investment banker, beckoned anew. Then in July the Bosnian Serbs seized Srebrenica, a U.N.-designated "safe haven," and galvanized President Clinton into belated action. His departure plans suddenly on hold, Holbrooke took charge of the Administration's negotiations on Bosnia. Plunging zestfully into the Balkan thicket, he emerged last week with the dramatic Serb...