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...fretted about his weight. Katrina hit, and he tarried at his home in Wyoming, checking in by videoconference. Harriet Miers was picked for the Supreme Court, and he found out secondhand. On Capitol Hill last week, the Republican Party was coping with an impasse over spending cuts and the fallout from an embarrassing loss in the Virginia Governor's race, and he was in South Dakota for a week of pheasant hunting. "I just haven't seen him around as much lately," said Sam Brownback, the conservative Republican Senator from Kansas...
...come at a time when the number of applications to business school are decreasing. The number of applications to HBS has dropped steadily from 10,382 applications for the class of 2004 to 6,552 applications for the class of 2007. Aisner attributed the decrease in applications to the fallout from the internet boom. “The number of applications received for 2004 was probably an aberration, it was the pent up demand after the internet boom so that is probably too high a watermark,” said Aisner. “Now we are seeing more...
...replies: “Kafka was one of my predecessors.”When his wife Joan (Laura Linney) embarks on a literary career, with greater success than he has enjoyed in decades, the latent tensions in their marriage are exposed and worsen until they precipitate divorce.The emotional fallout from this decision, particularly for the couple’s sons Walt and Frank (played by Jesse Eisenberg and Owen Kline respectively), is devastating. The film’s tagline—“Joint custody blows”—succinctly summarizes their feelings about the new family...
...research on the case himself, which wasn't unusual for the hands-on judge, but he did not discuss the matter with his clerks or ask them for their own research, which was. "I think that was motivated by a concern to shield his clerks from any potential fallout" from the incendiary case, Stein says. "I had no idea of the result until the decision came...
...commodities markets that Refco had dominated were holding up well last week. But there will be plenty of fallout elsewhere. A source close to Refco's largest shareholder, buyout kingpin Thomas Lee, says Lee figures his remaining Refco stake is worthless. Lee recouped $175 million in the Refco IPO. But he had invested $507 million for 57% of Refco in 2004, using funds from dozens of public and private pension systems, including California Public Employees' Retirement System, Pennsylvania State Employees' Retirement System, General Motors and Verizon. As a Refco insider (several Lee executives are on the Refco board...