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...Rather than seek slavery reparations from the U.S. government--a move that has little support in Congress--advocates are taking a cue from successful compensation suits by Holocaust victims and focusing on corporations. Among the defendants are such insurance companies as Aetna; financial-services companies, including FleetBoston and J.P. Morgan Chase; and such railroad giants as CSX and Union Pacific. Although the municipal ordinances don't address reparations, they require companies to research their records to disclose whether they benefited from slavery--information that could help identify "specific targets for reparations," says Deadria Farmer-Paellmann, a New York attorney leading...
...employees to winning the district-by-district contracts and walked away with at least a third of them. "If you were selling this device to a hospital, they would know the Medtronic name, and that would influence the buying decision," says Keay Nakae, a medical-device analyst at Wedbush Morgan Securities in Los Angeles. But in schools and other venues, "you can compete on features. Cardiac Science matches up pretty well...
...World Watch Delivered Protest Crushed ZIMBABWE A week of protests against President Robert Mugabe fizzled out after a merciless government crackdown. Police, soldiers and pro-Mugabe gangs beat up opponents. Two people died, at least 400 were arrested and dozens more filled hospitals in the capital, Harare. Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was detained for a day and then rearrested later in the week on fresh treason charges. Zimbabwe's Lawyers for Human Rights said it had received reports of arbitrary detentions, assault and torture. While calls for the biggest demonstrations "since independence" failed to spark - soldiers wearing no to mass...
Gray once sat on corporate boards ranging from Ameritech to J.P. Morgan. She was one of 12 foreign-born Americans to receive a Medal of Liberty from President Ronald Reagan at a ceremony marking the rekindling of the Statue of Liberty’s lamp in 1986. Five years later she won the nation’s highest civilian award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom...
Barker was a Wall Street executive and an expert on educational endowments. He worked for J. P. Morgan in New York, later becoming a partner with William A. M. Burden & Co. before going on to found Barker...