Word: brokering
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...Rangel acknowledges that he has never met Clark in person (they have talked on the phone) and didn't know a thing about Clark until he started catching the general's criticism of the Iraq war on CNN. The same was true of Sylvia Gillis, 57, an insurance broker who was among the 50 or so people who gathered to toast Clark's candidacy last Wednesday night at Frankie Z's Clark Bar in Chicago. "My mouth dropped open--a military man taking this antiwar position," she said. "He seemed honest, trustworthy, well versed and intellectual. My dream come true...
...partner in the U.S.A.," says Henrik Uterwedde, deputy director of the German-French Institute in Ludwigsburg. "But an attempt to separate them from the French is bound to backfire; they need each other too much." While German aides say that Schröder would like to play an honest broker role between Chirac and Bush - one that Blair can no longer pull off - he would never risk a public break with a France that has become Germany's battered twin not only in the Iraq debate, but in many other controversies in Europe as well. Chirac has muted his position...
...back to the office the next day," Lacey says. There's been one knockout - a lawyer named Paul "Mad Manx" Beckett - in 280 rounds. Few egos are badly bruised, though, because no winners are named. "It's intense enough without that," says Paul Damonte, 39, a money broker...
...Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the al-Aqsa Martyr?s Brigade. Some argue that Arafat is the terror kingpin, that the whole Oslo enterprise was a tragic mistake that Israel now has an opportunity to rectify by turning back the clock 12 years. Others see him a cynical power broker flitting between the different Palestinian constituencies and tolerating, rather than directing terror, but preventing the emergence of a new leadership with whom Israel might reach a deal. Still others see expelling him as a mistake that would remove the possibility of negotiations with the Palestinians for years to come. But even...
Most mutual-fund companies that sell through brokers give clients a discount on up-front commissions once they invest $25,000. But because of complex rules and carelessness, brokers often fail to award breakpoint discounts to their customers. The National Association of Securities Dealers is cracking down, telling brokerages to send out refunds possibly worth tens of millions of dollars. Although your broker should determine if you qualify, it doesn't hurt to ask or to read your fund prospectus and statement of additional information, both of which list breakpoint rules. All money invested with one fund firm--say, American...