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...William McGurn...
...surprisingly, White House officials have been poring over drafts for weeks. This is the first year that former Wall Street Journal editorial writer Bill McGurn has run the speech operation. But former speechwriting pointman Mike Gerson, now a counselor to the President and one of the architects of Bush?s ?compassionate conservatism,? has been brought in to help give the address added polish...
...Time Warner has been struggling since the disastrous merger in 2000 with AOL, which sent the company's share price plummeting. An Icahn-led group picked up 2.6% of the company, and "a boatload of hedge funds and other short-term players are sitting in the stock," said Patrick McGurn, special counsel at Institutional Shareholder Services, which advises on proxy fights. Yet so far, long-term investors aren't biting. Many credit Parsons for having already made progress in getting Time Warner's house in order. And after an uptick following the disclosure of Icahn's plan, the stock...
...Very few educational institutions have filed corporate governance or social responsibility proxy proposals at publicly traded companies in recent years,” McGurn writes in an e-mail. “The reason for this is not clear—although the general decline in campus protest efforts is sometimes cited as the cause...
...McGurn notes that universities are more likely to engage in divestment activities—like the Harvard Corporation’s decision last year to divest from PetroChina...