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...underestimated just how seriously its outside directors took their role. When it became clear at the meeting in late March that the board had been left mostly in the dark about CNOOC's plans for Unocal, a few outside directors, including former Swiss ambassador to China Erwin Schurtenberger and Goldman Sachs Asia vice chairman Kenneth Courtis, rebelled, forcing Fu to pull back just as Operation Treasure Ship was about to set sail. Ever since, CNOOC has had to play catch-up against Chevron in the fight for Unocal...
...CNOOC's court, and Fu, by all accounts, was confident as his board gathered in Hong Kong. He did not see the rebellion coming, says a banker close to CNOOC. Three key outside directors?former Shell Chemicals CEO Evert Henkes, former Swiss ambassador Schurtenberger, and Courtis of Goldman Sachs?all raised pointed questions at the meeting. According to sources with knowledge of the meeting, Schurtenberger?presciently, as it turned out?questioned whether the company was prepared for what was likely to be a hostile U.S. political reaction to the deal. Henkes wondered about the debt load that CNOOC would have...
...that showed Democratic incumbent Bill Nelson leading Harris 50% to 38%. Her supporters say Harris, who decided against a Senate run in 2004 after G.O.P. officials told her she could hurt President Bush's re-election prospects, was led to believe party officials would support her this time. Adam Goldman, a Harris adviser, said she is determined to run no matter what. That leaves the Bushes with a few hurdles to overcome: Bense hasn't decided whether he wants to run against such a well-known figure, and the Quinnipiac poll showed Harris leading Bense 54% to 6% among Republicans...
...fellow students conquer the rarified air of Goldman Sachs, right wrongs at the International Monetary Fund, and campaign against blind illiteracy, I am a camp counselor at a, to put it delicately, unorthodox children’s summer camp based in Maine. Its name: Camp Chunder Camp...
...Whatever hope Zimbardo offers rests on society's ability to recover its waning spirit of community. Where that occurs, vandalism is rare. Nathan Goldman, chairman of the sociology department at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, reports that a school deeply involved in its neighborhood-by holding night programs for parents, for instance, or by opening its doors to extracurricular community functions-invariably deters the vandal. Somehow, the behavioral scientists feel, man must discover how to apply this lesson on a broader scale. The vandal's deed is his declaration of defiance against a society that...