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...times may be changing. After a bruising annual-meeting season during which CalPERS wielded its $166 billion portfolio like a bludgeon, members of its board gathered in Lake Tahoe, Nev., in July to take stock. One invited speaker, Richard Koppes, a former CalPERS general counsel, delivered a blunt message. "Your friends think you're unfocused and too political," Koppes said. "They say you're beginning to damage the corporate-governance movement." CalPERS president Sean Harrigan, a grocery workers' union boss and an architect of the institutional investor's bare-knuckle strategy, got a more pointed message two weeks ago from...
Schwarzenegger's popularity frustrates the Democrats. "The guy is amazing. Stuff seems to bounce right off him," says Lance Olson, general counsel for the California Democratic Party. "Maybe someday some of it will stick, but so far he seems to be getting away with it." Others point out that the Governor's star appeal doesn't always translate into power. In the November elections, Republicans didn't pick up a single seat in the legislature despite Schwarzenegger's appearance at Republican rallies across the state. "Arnold has always said politics is like show business," says Art Torres, chairman...
British health officials issued yet another warning about antidepressant drugs last week. The same authorities, citing increased risk of suicide, advised last year against giving so-called SSRIs--except Prozac--to youths under 18. This time the counsel is aimed at adults. Doctors must now inform patients about withdrawal symptoms, such as anxiety and nausea, associated with SSRIs and closely monitor patients--especially young adults--for suicidal behavior when they begin drug treatment or change dosages. Doctors were also cautioned not to prescribe the drugs for mild depression without first trying talk therapy or other interventions. Finally, regulators issued...
Goldsmith previously worked as a special counsel at the Defense Department when Pentagon lawyers drafted one of the two so-called “torture memos” that offered a legal justification for the severe treatment of detainees...
Representatives from Harvard’s Office of the General Counsel were present at the meeting in addition to Pokaski, Harvard administrators and Boston and Harvard police...