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...According to the 16-count indictment handed up on Nov. 9, Interstate Industrial Corp., a hauling firm that was trying to get a business license from New York City while under investigation for possible ties to organized crime, paid $255,000 for the redesign and renovation of Kerik's apartment in the Riverdale neighborhood of the Bronx. The renovations included new walls and floors, a new kitchen, new marble bathrooms, a Jacuzzi and a "marble entrance rotunda." An official of the firm, the indictment charges, paid more than $236,000 in rent for a second Kerik apartment. At the same...
Necessity, that great mother of invention, played her role in the creation of DeepStream Technologies. Chief executive Mark Crosier and his core team found it necessary to get work in 2003 after losing their jobs. They became surplus to needs when Eaton Corp., an electrical company based in Cleveland, Ohio, bought the part of Delta Corp. where they worked. "Our whole team was severed in a redundancy, and we decided to design and build a business rather than all pursue our separate ways," recalls Crosier...
...United Arab Emirates, says its Mubadala Development Co. will pay $1.35 billion for a 7.5% share of the U.S.-based private-equity investment firm Carlyle Group, which owns a diverse range of megacompanies, from chipmaker Freescale Semiconductor and nursing-home operator Manor Care to airplane-parts manufacturer Sequa Corp...
...Canada in his teens, after World War II. He studied engineering at the University of Toronto before launching a consumer-electronics firm in the 1950s, only to see it succumb to U.S. and Japanese competition. Munk then built a chain of resorts in Fiji, called Southern Pacific Hotel Corp., and next dabbled in oil and gas, but lost heavily when energy prices collapsed in 1982. Munk turned to gold, he says, only when political unrest in South Africa during the 1980s presented what he saw as an irresistible opportunity. Hunting for safe neighborhoods to mine, he settled on the northern...
...There was another happy symbol at President Faust’s inaugural, and it was the Reserve Officers Training Corp (ROTC) color guard, which led the procession out of Tercentenary Theatre. The status of ROTC at Harvard is suspended in a troubled balance of forces, both historical and moral. Today Harvard ROTC students can stand guard over our president, and yet Harvard pretends ROTC isn’t there, except to deny it support...