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...Then the bubble burst, and the stocks went south, and the commission-taking investment bankers seemed like the only ones who'd gotten permanently rich. Wall Street watchers felt betrayed. Congress started sniffing around. FORTUNE (corporate cousin to this publication) ran a cover with a decidedly unflattering picture of Morgan Stanley interent analyst Mary Meeker, the most spectacularly fallen of the analyst stars, above the caption "Can We Ever Trust Wall Street Again...
...Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley decide that it's better for business to make their analysts credible again, they'll do it - more "sell" ratings, more disclosure, a rebuilding of the Chinese wall. Dealmakers and stock-pickers will stop talking to each other, and analysis will no longer be considered part of the investment bankers' sales pitch to investors...
...garnished from Cuban assets frozen in the U.S. under the rules of the economic embargo. Locating and collecting that dough will be hard and may require an O.K. from the White House. But Martinez's lawyers were confident enough last week to begin pushing banks like J.P. Morgan Chase to cough it up. The banks have yet to reply...
...next day, Nov. 3, 1999, Morgan died in the hospital; Pena watched her slip away. Poust received two minor traffic citations and later paid an undisclosed civil settlement. Pena went to bed and remained there for months. But her phone was within reach, and every time a reporter called, she wailed her story into it. That's how she launched a crusade to bar cell phone use while driving. In a debate complicated by high-powered lobbyists and murky data, Pena became the one clear voice. In 18 months she has testified before Congress and five state and local legislatures...
...these wonderful, brilliant researchers all around the country researching cell-phone safety," she says at one point. "And they call me back!") But she remains a woman obliterated by grief. When she looks at her new three-month-old daughter Olivia, she aches at the baby's resemblance to Morgan. She often replies to e-mails with tears streaming down her face. "I wonder why I do it," she says. "But you know, if I wasn't crying while returning these e-mails, I would just be crying...