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...earnings invasion is back down to a scouting party, and the count of headliners presages far more bad news (American Express, Lucent, Xerox, Kellogg and Qualcomm) than good. Even the likely winners (Exxon, Phillips Petroleum) should only serve to remind stock-shoppers how low energy prices (and thus prospective profits) have gone lately...
...brick streets and motorists of Cambridge, I indulge in the bike path near my house that peacefully slices through suburbia. My accessories, however, are not restricted to my Walkman. I also sport sunglasses, a large Red Sox cap and a layer of Coppertone (SPF 300) whose thickness Exxon would envy. (Only recently did I ponder the irony inherent in a name like Coppertone.) Other bikers notice the baseball cap and shake their heads with pity at this displaced northerner...
...Harvard’s endowment is spread out among hundreds of companies, thousands of acres of real estate and dozens of start-ups. The list of companies that HMC invests in runs the gamut from 160 shares of Martha Stewart Living to 877,000 shares of Exxon Mobil, HMC filings show...
...Board of the Harvard Management Company, which oversees Harvard’s $19 billion endowment; James R. “Jamie” Houghton ’58, chair emeritus of Corning, Inc., and a member of the Board of Directors of a half dozen companies ranging from Exxon Mobil to MetLife, who has most recently filled his time as the chair of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; and the youngest member of the search committee—the only one under 60—Herbert S. “Pug” Winokur...
...natural gas, nuclear and utility industries. Rick Shelby of the American Gas Association, who raised or gave $250,000, is invited, as is former Republican Party chairman Haley Barbour, who lobbies for the huge coal-based utility Southern Co. and the firm of Cassidy & Associates, whose clients include Exxon, Texaco and Pennzoil. It's a stretch to link their fund raising and the Bush Administration's energy plan, but the timing is a p.r. nightmare: the Vice President breaking bread with energy lobbyists just four days after giving a boost to the industry...