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...shocked when I was placed on the panel, since I'd once worked as an investment banker. I didn't think the prosecution would want a juror who had been active on Wall Street during a go-go era and might well see nothing wrong with fat bonuses and lavish parties for men generating great wealth for the company. I certainly did not enter the case with a vendetta against the defendants, who were accused of taking tens of millions of dollars in unauthorized bonuses and essentially using Tyco assets as a giant piggy bank to fund their lavish lifestyles...
Coalition officials tout the theory that a thriving middle class will inevitably demand an end to violence and ensure a peaceful democracy. "If you have a job and a home and a cell phone, you'll be a lot less eager to launch attacks," says Tom Foley, an investment banker from Greenwich, Conn., who runs private-sector development for the coalition in Baghdad. His argument may not be proved for years. But the belief that companies can help foster democracy while earning money has been a strong draw for Iraqi emigres. After decades of exile in the U.S., Sabah Khesbak...
...investment banker, Cameron, 37, managed a $50 million IPO for Acambis, a London vaccine producer. As its CFO, he helped Acambis win a $430 million contract from the U.S. to supply smallpox vaccine, a contract that transformed the company from a small R.-and-D. shop into a drugmaker with clout. So it's no wonder that the Acambis board took a chance on Cameron and named him CEO. The Scotsman, whose hobbies include golf, will try to tee up the first West Nile--virus vaccine in his first months...
Soon, Lehiff has targeted Sam, a middle-aged banker who recently left his wife to move in with a recently single younger girl. Needless to say, her name is Deirdre and John is very angry to learn that she failed her test. Lehiff offers him the chance to get even: help him rob Sam while holding Deirdre hostage. They enlist a third member for their gang, Mick, who has just been fired from bus-driving after a young boy threw a rock through his window, causing him to crash...
Apparently Kavulla imagines that the course lacks diversity, but think again: he would have the opportunity to interview 24 guests, who range from billionaires to janitors; from entrepreneurs to nuns; from American leaders like Larry Summers to the Indian banker Chetna Sinha. He would engage with many more minds than he has in past classes, when he has sat through two dozen lectures by a single conservative individual...