Word: leon
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...leading catbirds, Blackstone's Stephen Schwarzman and Apollo's Leon Black, happen to be old pals of Silverman's. In the 1980s, Silverman too was an LBO artist, working alongside corporate raider Saul Steinberg and funding his exploits with Michael Milken's Drexel junk bonds. Then, as a partner at Blackstone in the early 1990s, he sniffed a change in the financial winds, cobbled together a few struggling hotel chains (starting with Ramada and Howard Johnson) into Hospitality Franchise Systems (HFS), took the company public and stayed...
South African opposition leader Tony Leon questioned several of his government’s recent decisions and called the country’s foreign policy “schizophrenic” in a speech at the Law School yesterday. The head of the Democratic Alliance, South Africa’s leading opposition party, Leon criticized the country’s ties to Saddam Hussein’s government during the time the Iraqi dictator was in power, the country’s decision to veto a United Nations resolution condemning human-rights violations in Myanmar, and its policy...
...dozen or so Harvard students who have used their blogs as stepping stones to larger writing opportunities and careers. Harvard Law alum Jeremy Blachman wrote the farcical Anonymous Lawyer blog and the eponymous book. Jonathan C. Liu ’07 and former FM editor-at-large Leon Neyfakh ’07 now write the weekend edition of Gawker. Former FM Chair Elizabeth W. Green ’06 blogs and reports for U.S. News & World Report.Reflecting a national trend, Harvard students are flooding the blogosphere, individually and in groups, covering their own lives, Harvard life (like Cambridge Common...
...north, Dartmouth loses leading scorer Leon Pattman, but that should be the only loss. Forward Alex Barnett should be a First Team All-League selection next year and plenty of depth is back with him up front, including 6’9” center Elgin Fitzgerald...
...intention has always been to eventually turn over the land to the Argentine government for a national park." He has done so once here already, donating another estate he owned in the Argentine southern region of Patagonia to the National Parks administration. Tompkins had originally bought the gigantic Monte Leon 163,000-acre sheep farm in the late 1990s, including a 25-mile stretch of South Atlantic coast, home to one of the largest Magellan penguin rookeries in the world and abundant as well in sea lions, pumas and some 50 bird species. He handed it over...