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...caped crusader. "I've never seen him try to push an agenda," says Black. Buffett's efforts tend to be understated. But now that he's becoming more vocal about his beliefs, he can expect more opposition. In an op-ed article in the Wall Street Journal, Harvey Golub, a director at Dow Jones and former CEO of American Express, has already argued that stock options should not be regarded as an expense on a company's books. Intel chairman Andy Grove spoke for much of the tech world last September when he told the Conference Board that "stock options...
Creditors want to get paid, shareholders want her out, and the SEC is looking into the company's accounting practices, but in defending her turf, Wachner could well redefine tenacious. And she'll have help. Her circle of support includes such corporate heavyweights as former American Express chairman Harvey Golub, a new Warnaco board member, and Citigroup boss Sanford Weill, whose Citibank, along with J.P. Morgan Chase, is part of a collection of banks that will provide Wachner with $600 million in debtor-in-possession financing. That will buy her a few months to try to clean things up. "Under...
Another Whitehead scientist, oncologist Dr. Todd Golub, is trying to improve on the primitive techniques doctors use to guide their fight against cancer. Currently, pathologists use the location of a tumor in the patient's body and its appearance under a microscope to determine what sort of malignancy is involved. It works often--but not always. Melanoma, for example, starts out as a skin cancer but may end up in the lung or breast, where it can be much more damaging than primary lung or breast cancer...
...Golub and colleagues at Boston's Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, meanwhile, are learning that tumors from a specific category--lung, prostate, colon--can be divided into previously unsuspected subcategories. Golub says of his specialty, for example, "We're trying to understand why some men die with prostate cancer rather than of prostate cancer, whereas others have aggressive disease that kills them...