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...years, but that still makes him little more than the Bush Administration's court jester. Any credibility he had had as a journalist was ruined when he took the job as mouthpiece for the White House. He is going to end up as spokesman for some corporation or lobbying firm. No matter what, he will be highly paid. My hat's off to him. Art Robinson LaGrange Park, Illinois, U.S. Madonna's New Baby I don't understand the controversy over Madonna's adoption of a Malawian orphan [Nov. 13]. Shouldn't it be taken as a sign of generosity...
...other words, now that Big Money is onboard, hedge funds are playing it safer. "Historically, the people who were giants of the industry were unusual, dynamic and hard to classify," says Yasho Lahiri, a partner at law firm Baker Botts in New York City, who represents hedge funds and investors. "Today people want repeatable process...
...operate with more solid materials. So it's a sign of significant clients' openness to new ideas that the pair have somehow joined the ranks of sought-after, real-world architects, the kind who work with poured concrete and get major commissions. In the past few years their firm, Diller Scofidio + Renfro--they brought in Charles Renfro as full partner two years ago--has been chosen to redesign large parts of the glamorous marbledom that is Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City and to convert an abandoned elevated railway line in lower Manhattan into a very...
...liters Amount of Coca-Cola consumed over five years by Russian Natalya Kashuba, 27, who sued the firm for causing her heartburn and insomnia $118 Amount awarded to Kashuba by a Russian court last week. She is seeking an additional $113,000 in "moral damages...
...start earning a profit, has become one of the busiest shopping days of the year in recent years. On Friday, Americans nation-wide doled out $8.96 billion on purchases—a six percent increase from the same day last year, according to Chicago-based consumer data collection firm ShopperTrak. Yet some view the consumption frenzy encouraged by Black Friday sales as problematic. Lama Surya Das, a Buddhist leader who heads the Dzogchen Center in Cambridge, views after-Thanksgiving sales as a “surfeit of materialism,” and instead advocates “Buy Nothing...