Word: jacobson
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...have to remember that if Jon [Jacobson] makes $5 million in a year, that means he’s added something like $500 million to the endowment,” Daniel says...
...Cohen. Then there's the privacy problem: "The parents don't have a real home, so it's hard to get on with their own lives as adults," says Constance Ahrons, author of The Good Divorce. Then there's the confusion factor. Says New York City divorce mediator June Jacobson: "Children harbor a fantasy that their parents will get back together. To the extent that children are encouraged to maintain this fantasy, it can do harm because it doesn't allow them to fully integrate the change in family structure...
Highfields Capital was founded in 1998 by Jonathan Jacobson, the former portfolio manager of Harvard Management Company, which manages the University's endowment...
Slather on the epithets--Food Nazi, Twinkie Taxer, Nutrition Nanny. Michael Jacobson, nemesis of the multibillion-dollar U.S. food industry, relishes the attention. In the three decades since the soft-spoken microbiologist co-founded the Washington-based Center for Science in the Public Interest, he has enraged the restaurant industry (fettuccine Alfredo: "a heart attack on a plate"), forced a ban on sulfites at salad bars after a rash of fatal allergic reactions, shamed McDonald's into excising beef tallow from its French fryers, roused moviegoers against artery-clogging coconut oil in popcorn and successfully lobbied for nutrition labels...
...Have Jacobson's junk-food jihads worked? "Michael's ideas about diet and health were seen as way out there 20 years ago," says former FDA commissioner David Kessler. "Now they are mainstream." Translation: we may be fatter than ever, but at least we are feeling guiltier about it. Jacobson, 57, spits out new initiatives faster than you can say olestra (slapped with a gastrointestinal warning, thanks to C.S.P.I.). He dreams of fast-food outlets listing calories. "I can just see it," he sighs. "Big Mac: 560 calories, $2.19." He's urging a federally funded campaign to promote five daily...