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Simpson describes the Laramie attack as a "crucifixion," and he spoke at a vigil at the U.S. Capitol not long after Shepard died. Barney Frank, the openly gay Massachusetts Congressman and a friend, warned Simpson that because he was a Republican, he would be booed at the vigil. He was, but lesbians and gays from around his state also introduced themselves to him that day. "I said to myself, 'This is fascinating; these people are from all over,'" Simpson recalls, with self-conscious bemusement. When Francis approached him to join the R.U.C., he readily agreed. The group signed its credo...
...writer DANIEL KADLEC. The experts: Seymour Lotsoff, senior managing director at hedge-fund firm Lotsoff Capital Management; Dagny Maidman, managing director of private client services at Bank of America Securities; Robert Smith, manager of the T. Rowe Price Growth Stock Fund; and Tobias Levkovich, U.S. equity strategist for Smith Barney. Their thoughts...
...American blockbuster appears to be invulnerable these days. On Aug. 21, for instance, a stock analyst at Smith Barney warned that the threat posed to Lipitor from a potential generic rival created by Ranbaxy, India's largest drugmaker, was bigger than previously thought. That day, Pfizer's stock dipped 3% as investors grappled with the prospect of this unexpected challenge. Ranbaxy, a vigorous exporter to the U.S., claims that its generic version of Lipitor doesn't infringe on Pfizer's patent and is scheduled to argue its case in a Delaware court late next year. And this wasn...
Daniel McGlinchey—a foreign policy aide to Rep. Barney Frank ’61, D-Mass., who has played a prominent role in Washington’s push to free Yang—said he thought the behavior of the Chinese government could only be explained by a fundamental inability to understand Yang’s work for democracy...
...mild-mannered Prince has plenty of supporters. "Chuck has very good judgment, often in tough business situations," says Robert Greenhill, the veteran investment banker who ran Smith Barney and worked with Prince in the mid-1990s. Prince also wins high praise from his adversary in the stock research dustup, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer. Late last December, Spitzer was trying to wind up a $1.4 billion settlement with 10 brokerages (including Citi) that had been accused of misleading clients with faulty stock research. Spitzer feared that the talks were losing steam, so one morning he insisted that the major...