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...videotape editor in New York City, claims he lost more than $455,000 by following the advice of a Wall Street superstar. He invested his life savings in the telecom stock Global Crossing. And he did it, he says, based on tainted research reports by former Salomon Smith Barney analyst Jack Grubman, a onetime guru who has been barred from the securities industry for life...
Four years after he launched his first campaign for president, here's what we've learned about George W. Bush. He sees the world in black and white, good and evil. He has the macho gait of a West Texan but carries his Scottish terrier, Barney, up and down the stairs of Air Force One like a New England patrician. He delegates authority but relishes the big decisions--and never looks back after making them. He trusts in a heavenly God but believes just as devoutly in the power of leadership on earth. Now, as his second campaign gets rolling...
...thanked Representative Barney Frank, D-Mass., for what he called Frank’s unfaltering support in pressing for the release of Jianli...
...During the period in question, Zimmerman was employed at Omega Advisors, a hedge fund based in New York City, while Becker worked at Jennison Associates and then at Salomon Smith Barney. In the case of Drugstore.com, Zimmerman allegedly bought the stock just before Becker issued a positive report. With Avon and eBay, Zimmerman sold shares short-a bet that their prices would fall-just ahead of the release of negative reports. The Avon tip allegedly came not from Becker's research but from that of a former colleague at Salomon, who had asked Becker for advice before issuing a negative...
Steinkeller says he wants a Congressional hearing to assign blame for the looting of Baghdad’s museums and hospitals. He cites numerous treaties that place the responsibility for law and order on the nation’s occupying power. But after a recent meeting with Representative Barney Frank, D-Mass., Steinkeller says he’s pessimistic that such a hearing could take place in the near future...