Word: macke
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...most accounts, John Mack is a tenacious, intimidating, demanding, no-excuses kind of manager. Get called into his office, and you better be prepared. Show him up, and you've made an enemy for years. His verbal dressing downs while at the helm of mighty Morgan Stanley left underlings nearly needing a change of underthings. He is, it seems, just the tough s.o.b. to rescue scandal-ridden Credit Suisse First Boston--and restore a badly needed ounce of credibility to Wall Street. Hello, Mack the Knight...
...Mack took over at CSFB, like Morgan a power player in global banking and trading, after its Swiss bosses sacked CEO Allen Wheat two weeks ago. Mack was available, having left the No. 2 job at Morgan Stanley in March following a huge career miscalculation. After Morgan Stanley merged with Dean Witter a few years back, Mack thought he would get to run it. He didn't, so he moved on. That's the way it is with type A's, a breed drawn to Wall Street like suckers to a flawed...
...research side already had strong emotional appeals from former Republican Senator Connie Mack, a cancer survivor, as well as G.O.P. Senators Gordon Smith and Strom Thurmond, who have relatives with diseases they believe might be cured if stem-cell research goes forward. Raising the emotional stakes, Smith went on CNN last week and challenged opponents of stem-cell research. "I ask them to go with me to the hospital and visit some of my relatives who are dying of Parkinson's and withhold that care and hope." All three men have long records opposing abortion. These are the kinds...
...philosophical inconsistencies of those on the right who have taken an independent approach to the issue of stem cells. Senator Orrin Hatch, a staunch right-to-lifer, makes a distinction between an embryo in a petri dish and one inside a woman's womb. So does Connie Mack, another committed right-to lifer. They both suggest that embryos outside a woman's uterus are not potential life and can be used for research. "Ha!," those on the left seem to be responding, "if you really were a philosophical purist about the right-to-life you wouldn't be making such...
...shouldn't they instead be commending Hatch and Mack for being thoughtful and broad-minded and humane, for proposing a kind of Solomonic compromise on a difficult issue? A compromise which will not please the Vatican, but one which will make sense to millions of Americans...