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...powerful banker, came face-to-face with Eliot Spitzer, the toughest cop on Wall Street. Both were among the guests at a Sept. 10 lunch hosted by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg at Gracie Mansion. Their exchange was brief. But Weill, 69, CEO of Citigroup, indicated he was eager to talk about the ugly business that Spitzer, the ambitious New York State attorney general, has been finding in his probe of the financial behemoth. Within days a high-level session followed, and even Spitzer was impressed with Weill's sense of urgency...
...tactics to Hitler's. One reason for the Bushies' anger, Administration sources claim, is that Schroder left a clear impression with Bush that he would eventually support the U.S. against Iraq. "Schroder looked him in the eye and lied," says one Bush aide. Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer seems eager to repair the breach. He says he wants to schedule a trip to the U.S. and hopes a "window of opportunity" will open up in the next few weeks, but that sounds a lot like he has not been invited...
...powerful banker, came face-to-face with Eliot Spitzer, the toughest cop on Wall Street. Both were among the guests at a Sept. 10 lunch hosted by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg at Gracie Mansion. Their exchange was brief. But Weill, 69, CEO of Citigroup, indicated he was eager to talk about the ugly business that Spitzer, the ambitious New York State attorney general, has been finding in his probe of the financial behemoth. Within days a high-level session followed, and even Spitzer was impressed with Weill's sense of urgency. The meeting that followed, at the attorney...
...appeal. For his part, Torricelli, weirdly relaxed, stayed at his farm. He spent time on the Internet looking to adopt a St. Bernard puppy something he'd been talking about for awhile. He also told friends that he'd never run for office again and that he was eager to start joining corporate boards. In the post-Enron era it's hard to imagine too many companies rushing to hire the Torch...
...casual observer that most undergraduates are unable to grasp that simple premise. In spite of the furor over falling numbers at last week’s Phillips Brooks House Association First-Year Day of Service—where 25 students participated, compared to more than 300 eager volunteers the previous year—the problem at Harvard remains the student body’s over-commitment and unrelenting drive, not its passivity or fecklessness...