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...seen sending this check back. "He probably doesn't consider this version bad enough to take a chance," he says. "Most of the most objectionable parts were weeded out in the House." The support-the-boys rationale was happily echoed by the bill's chief author, Senate Appropriations Committee chairman Ted Stevens of Alaska. He said opposing the measure "would send the wrong message for the young men and women who represent this country in uniform." Not to mention those reindeer farmers back home...
...think I hate the little midget." --From unpublished notes for Disney chairman Michael Eisner's 1998 autobiography, Work in Progress...
AFTER HOURS Talk about bad market timing. Just as SEC chairman Arthur Levitt was warning last week about the dangers of online trading, Instinet--the network that lets brokerages and mutual funds trade stocks after the closing bell--said it would soon afford retail investors the same privilege. Before long, sleep-deprived traders in their pajamas should be clicking trades through cyberspace all night long, potentially saving money by having their trades executed faster. Retail investors will still route their trades to Instinet through brokers--online and otherwise--but they'll be able to react to late-breaking news. Both...
...politics, and even some Republicans. Goldman Sachs president John Thornton hasn't raised money for a candidate before, doesn't even give to the company's political-action committee; but since meeting Bradley nine months ago, he has been asking for and getting checks from friends--including Goldman chairman Henry Paulson, a Republican who's backing John McCain. J.P. Morgan managing director Jackson Tai, a Republican who also avoided politics until getting to know Bradley, a former J. P. Morgan consultant, is helping raise tens of thousands of dollars...
...hefty $4.3 million in the first quarter, and will do even better in the second: Word on the street is that he could report as much as $8 million or $9 million, and Gore supporters are worried that he could top the vice president's take. Bradley finance chairman Louis Susman refused to speculate beyond "more than $6 million," but Bradley will clearly have the cash to be a contender...