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...Jarrett runs the Habitat Co., a real estate firm, and she chairs the board of the University of Chicago Medical Center as well. She has also served as chair of both the Chicago Transit Board and the Chicago Stock Exchange. But as Jarrett sees it, her most important position may be the role of honest critic for the man she hopes will be President. "I'm very frank, and I always tell them what I think," says Jarrett. "But that's probably easier to do when you're good friends...
...former Congressman, ambassador and mayor of Atlanta, Young, 76, is co-chairman of GoodWorks International, a consulting firm...
When El-Erian assumed leadership of HMC in 2006, the firm was severely in need of rebuilding, having lost more than 30 employees when the previous CEO, Jack R. Meyer left to form his own hedge fund with $500 million in seed money from the University...
...entanglement between McCain's office and Alcalde's firm went further. In December 1999, FCC chairman William Kennard chastised McCain for writing a letter encouraging the resolution to a licensing matter involving Paxson Communications. The letter was written one day after McCain had been flown on a Paxson jet to a fund raiser on a yacht in West Palm Beach, Fla., and just weeks before Paxson's owner was scheduled to hold a fund raiser for McCain. The appearance problem was so severe that John Weaver, McCain's political adviser at the time, asked one of Alcalde's lobbyists...
...training program, run by British consulting firm GroundTruth, was part of an effort by the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) to prepare its U.S.-based Rapid Deployment Team to respond to future natural and manmade disasters in the hemisphere. The British government decided to ramp up this type of training after taking a beating in the press for its perceived clumsy handling of the 2002 terrorist bombings in Bali...