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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have a rule at the hedge fund that I run: sell a stock at the first whiff of accounting irregularities. This rule has kept us from losing fortunes, including those we had made in Oxford Health, Sunbeam and Waste Management, to name three recent situations where the stench of overcooked books, and a dramatic decline in stock price, followed closely behind that early whiff. When a stock gets hit because of a product glitch, or a short-term execution problem, I will consider holding on, or even buying more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Avoid My Mistake | 7/27/1998 | See Source »

...hedge fund recently violated that rule, and last week we paid the price. We believed the management of Cendant when it told us three months ago that it had an accounting glitch but that it would not be major. We looked the other way because Henry F. Silverman, president of Cendant, had made so much money for us in the past. We even bought more when the stock got clocked from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Avoid My Mistake | 7/27/1998 | See Source »

Those days ended five months ago, when Bond took over as chairman. Meanwhile, former Baltimore Congressman Kweisi Mfume, the hapless Chavis' replacement as executive director, has proved to be an adept fund raiser and effective lobbyist. Bond's predecessor as chairman, Myrlie Evers-Williams, did such a good job of cleaning up Gibson's mess that Bond is free to devote himself to the organization's true mission: fighting for racial justice. He's the right man for the job: a charismatic civil rights hero since the 1960s, when he served as spokesman for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Still White Supremacy | 7/27/1998 | See Source »

Before entering public life in 1993, Keane worked in the business sector, most notably as a general partner in Murphy & Partners, a New York-based equity fund...

Author: By Jennifer M. Siegel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Candidate For Eighth District Seat Speaks at IOP | 7/24/1998 | See Source »

Presently, seniors may choose to donate theirmoney specifically to a scholarship fund butcannot give to individual departments or programs...

Author: By Jennifer M. Siegel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Class of 1998 Doesn't Ante Up for Harvard | 7/24/1998 | See Source »

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