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...million: Amount that Shleifer will pay the U.S. government to settle the same lawsuit. $3 billion: Amount invested in Bracebridge Capital, the hedge fund run by Shleifer’s wife, according to comments she made at an April 2006 University of Chicago conference...
When he first joined the Chicago Goldman Sachs offices in 1974, Paulson joked that his wife once threatened to leave him if he did not spend more time with his children...
When they published their working paper “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy” in March, the authors anticipated criticism. But even Kennedy School of Government Academic Dean Stephen M. Walt and University of Chicago professor John J. Mearsheimer could not have predicted the transatlantic storm that their paper unleashed.Writing about the role of Israel supporters in formulating American foreign policy, Walt and Mearsheimer now famously claimed that the U.S. is acting against its own interests in the Middle East because of the powerful “Israel Lobby...
...four elected students from the Class of 2006 then narrowed down the list of possible speakers to 10, before choosing Paulson at the end of March. That was two months before Paulson was chosen as the next man to sign his name on the dollar bill. Paulson joined the Chicago office of Goldman Sachs in 1974. The investment banker rose through the ranks of the famous firm to become its top officer in 1999. Paulson will be succeeded by Lloyd C. Blankfein ’75, a former Winthrop House resident who is currently the second-in-command at Goldman...
...computers in the social sciences, died in his Cambridge apartment on Jan. 31. He was 69.Colleagues and friends described Stone as a “timeless Renaissance man” who inspired a generation of Harvard undergraduates.AHEAD OF HIS TIMEThe precocious Stone entered the University of Chicago at age 15. By 23, he had a doctorate in psychology and social relations from Harvard. He began teaching here in 1960 and remained on the faculty for the rest of his life. Stone devoted much of his research to studying interpersonal and group dynamics. At Harvard, he taught Psychology...