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...bludgeoned to death in the parish house of his Guatemala City church the day after he published an exhaustive report of human rights violations by the Guatemalan army during the civil war. Although three military officers were convicted of the murder and jailed in 2001, Guatemalan-American writer Francisco Goldman claims a key witness identified Molina as one of several high-ranking army men who gathered near the church on the night of the murder. But Molina dismisses the claim as "pure lies," saying he was not even in the country when Gerardi was killed...
...companies that most dramatically bucked the trend were Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase. The latter's success got the most attention because its CEO, Jamie Dimon, was once in line to succeed Sandy Weill at Citigroup. According to Monica Langley's book Tearing Down the Walls, Dimon, a notoriously tough manager, got the boot after losing his temper with a fellow executive who had been rude to a colleague's wife at a 1998 corporate retreat. Prince, Weill's legal adviser, inherited the top job in his place...
...colleague's wife. But veteran banking analyst Richard Bove of the brokerage firm Punk Ziegel says Dimon owed his big quarter to a billion dollars in onetime gains. "Apart from that, JPMorgan's results are just as bad as everybody else's," he says. He has similar concerns about Goldman Sachs. Bove's verdict: We're in the midst of a "systemic debt crisis" from which no one can emerge unscathed...
...raising more questions than it has answered. “My head is spinning,” he said. The Mossavar-Rahmani Center carries its name as a result of a $15 million gift from a prominent business couple—Sharmin Mossavar-Rahmani, who is Managing Director of Goldman-Sachs, and her husband Bijan, a KSG alumnus who heads Mondoil Corporation, an international petroleum firm. The Mossavar-Rahmani Center runs a wide range of programs, including initiatives on corporate social policy, regulatory policy, and environmental economics. —Staff writer David K. Hausman can be reached at dhausman@fas.harvard.edu...
...private partner--a genuine benefit. If construction costs spike or expected traffic doesn't materialize, that's the company's problem. "We've had some governments say to us, 'I don't really need to be in that business,'" says Mark Florian, who oversees infrastructure deals for Goldman Sachs. These so-called greenfield projects are starting to catch on. And some states are getting savvy about how to structure the terms. The 50-year lease for Texas' State Highway 130, for example, includes a revenue-sharing clause that nets the state 4.6% of gross receipts at first...