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...While most former mayors might harbor a hope of seeing their names on a city park or freeway bridge, Giuliani has stamped his on a consulting firm, an investment bank, a best-selling book and a venerable Texas law firm. Through his speeches and business deals, he has expanded his political network and piled up chits for future favors - all while making himself rich. Who needs the Senate...
...words, because of his strong brand, Giuliani didn't have to go on bended knee, like an ordinary politician, to the man who was to become his campaign-finance chairman. Instead, weaving a web of potential major donors became just another enterprise of Giuliani Partners. With one hand, the firm signed contracts to advise such security-conscious businesses as Entergy (a leading U.S. nuclear power plant operator) and Broadwater Energy (which hopes to build a liquefied-natural-gas terminal in New York's Long Island Sound). With the other hand, the company began reaching out to such key Bush supporters...
...reasonable alternatives exist.” HDAG also wants Harvard to adopt a “targeted divestment model” in which it pledges to divest from companies meeting very specific criteria. Today’s globalized and interconnected world, however, makes indirect investments a thorny issue. Firms invest in other firms, partner with other firms, and hold complex financial instruments that give them partial claims to ownership of yet other firms. Add to this the dynamic and quickly-changing nature of today’s business environment, and it becomes almost impossible for an institutional investor of Harvard?...
...most competitive thing to do. After law school, instead of doing one’s passion, which may not be lucrative or prestigious, they say, ‘What’s the next prize, the next thing that’s hardest to get, the court or law firm that’s hardest to join, the consulting firm with the highest salary...
...Washington pundits and officials in the Bush Administration who want to goose the government into action are fond of saying the Iraqi leaders just aren't taking a firm hold of the reins. Meanwhile, Iraqi politicians chafe when American officials complain about their incompetence or selfishness or laziness. They bridle over one of major flaws of the U.S. occupation: American condescension. No one wants to be told they can't run their own country. The fact is, no one has run their country well in the last four years; there is plenty of blame to go around...