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...more likely way to regain footing would be a Grand New Policy Proposal. All of us high- minded pundits would just be thrilled if the President decided to launch an energy-independence Manhattan Project to help extricate the nation from the thrall of the oil sheiks. Bush has been touting Jimmy Carter- like conservation pinpricks in recent weeks; the air conditioning in the White House has been turned down. But it would be very un-Bush to call for the 50(cent)-per-gal. gasoline tax that even some conservatives are supporting. In fact, it's far more likely that...
...understand why compensation is so important, one needn’t look further than where all of HMC’s departing employees are headed: Convexity Capital Management, a hedge fund set to launch in 2006. Lucrative hedge funds usually get a “two and twenty” cut—two percent of the amount invested in the fund goes to management fees every year plus 20 percent of the returns. For a $25.9 billion dollar hedge fund that grew at 19.2 percent last year—the equivalent of Harvard’s endowment?...
...calmness" ends, Israel fears Hamas may launch new operations from the West Bank. Hamas believes its bombs and rockets drove the Israelis out of Gaza, its sees little reason not to continue the same strategy in the West Bank...
Rothenberg said he expected Convexity to launch...
Point was the brainchild of Bruce Lindstrom, 60, who in 1976 helped Sol Price launch the warehouse retail industry with the first Price Club, in San Diego. Lindstrom had grown up in an evangelical family in Riverside, Calif., and says when his parents and two brothers learned he was gay, they stopped talking to him. His nephew Nathan Lindstrom, 29, says whenever Bruce sent gifts home, the kids were told, "This is from Uncle Bruce, the sodomite...