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...standards. RECOVERING. BILL CLINTON, 58; after a four-hour quadruple-bypass operation during which doctors found his heart disease to be extensive, with some of his arteries over 90% blocked; in New York City. The former President was released from the hospital Friday. SENTENCED. FRANK QUATTRONE, 48, former investment banker to high-flying Silicon Valley companies during the Internet boom; to 18 months in prison; in New York City. He is appealing a May conviction for hindering a federal stock investigation involving Credit Suisse First Boston, but will be forced to begin serving prison time in late October while...
Headstrong about avoiding the I-banker/consultant pack and charting a more solitary course, I imagined my job—researcher/writer/latte-boy at NBC News—would mean new people and far-flung places...
...game's revival and points to the popular World Poker Tour TV series, which also shows the game's global reach - in one episode, a French ex-junior tennis star triumphed over a Baghdad-born engineer, an American poker pro, a Paris-based Tunisian, a British investment banker and a Greek tycoon. Affleck says it's not hard to see why poker has wide appeal. "There's elimination," he says, "there's victory, there's defeat and there are real stakes involving everyday, normal people." And some very smart people as well. "The dotcom generation loves poker. It gives...
...difficult fence to cross. In fact, David Works' brother John, an investment banker in Denver, has been the most vocal opponent of the Hemings' quest to be acknowledged by the association. "They thought they could bulldoze their way into the family," says John Works, who admits that the disagreement with his brother over the Hemings has fractured an already strained relationship. Responding to charges that the association is excluding the Hemings for racial reasons, he says, "Absolutely not. Ninety-three percent of the family can't be racist," he says, referring to the portion who voted to exclude the Hemings...
...caught over the summer of 1982 the venture capital leverage buyout bug,” he says. “I was just smitten with this notion of buying companies versus being an investment banker...