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...Feinberg issued his first award, $1.04 million to the family of an unmarried recent college graduate who earned $60,000 a year and died at the World Trade Center. The family's attorney, Roberta Gordon, said that her clients were not happy. They could never be happy. But they thought that Feinberg's award was "eminently fair." One down, 3,199 cases...
That approach paid off big for Bonderman's first turnaround, Continental Airlines. Thanks to a clever purchasing arrangement, TPG's partnership controlled Continental, though it owned just 14% of its stock. Not just an investor with deep pockets, TPG closely watched costs and CEO Gordon Bethune. Continental's share price, once down around $2, soared to $65 by 1998. "It was a huge gamble with an even larger payoff in an industry where net profits are close to zero," says Continental board member George Parker. After eight years, TPG's total return on its $66 million investment was nearly...
...House Republicans vying this year for a promotion to the Senate, it's not surprising that Senate majority leader Tom Daschle felt a new urgency to pass just about any bill that might deny them bragging rights. The final compromise, proposed by Democrat Bob Graham of Florida and Republican Gordon Smith of Oregon, would have limited coverage to seniors of low and modest income and to those who face catastrophic costs. It was skimpier than legislation that Democrats had earlier rejected as inadequate. This time it got the votes of all but five Democrats. But with only four Republicans supporting...
BaadAsssss also examines the music, which the larger (i.e., white) audience probably knows better than the movies. There is archival footage of Shaft's director, Gordon Parks, coaching Hayes as he records the movie's funk-legend theme, and critic Elvis Mitchell explains how Curtis Mayfield's antidrug score for Superfly subtly rebuts the movie's pusher-glorifying plot (the same tension as exists in much gangsta rap). The documentary confirms blaxploitation's lasting influence on music and movies by interviewing Afeni Shakur (mother of late rapper Tupac) and Quentin Tarantino, the white boy whom blaxploitation made. The Oscars...
DIED. MATT ROBINSON, 65, writer for The Cosby Show and other TV sitcoms who was the first actor to play the endearing Gordon on Sesame Street; of Parkinson's disease, in Los Angeles...