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...Jack B. Morley ’08 said the speech lifted the spirits of the dwindling crowd...
...quickly that some commentators are comparing the hedge-fund boom to the dotcom bubble. While the best funds do make lots of money, they generally require a long-term commitment from investors. And the lack of consistent and transparent strategies among various hedge funds doesn't help. Says Ian Morley, CEO of Dawnay, Day Olympia, a joint-venture asset management concern: "Hedge funds are many things, and hedged isn't usually one of them." Hedge funds originated in 1949, and were for many years the province of the hyperwealthy, who used them to protect assets during market slumps. Some...
...this sense, it mimics the network?s newsmagazine flagship, ?60 Minutes,? which also pushes, or licks, or gums, the geriatric envelope. Mike Wallace and Andy Rooney are both 85; Morley Safer is a grandpaternal 73; Don Hewitt, the show?s founding and continuing boss, is 81 and reluctant to quit. But ?60 Minutes? has a ticking urgency: it?s a time bomb ever threatening to go boom. The show has a need to hector, and a suspicion, in most of its stories, that powerful people often have something to hide, and that it is the mission of Hewitt...
...STEWART Journalism stars are made in times of war: Edward R. Murrow in World War II, Morley Safer in Vietnam and now, with his deskbound coverage of the fighting in Iraq, The Daily Show's Stewart. As he incessantly points out, he plays host on a fake newscast on a basic cable channel (Comedy Central), but this allows him to be critical, arch, incredulous and relevant, to the delight of viewers and the envy of many real journalists...
...executive. Dad's News Corporation is BSkyB's largest shareholder, so giving the kid a job was easy, but it infuriated financial groups that own the rest of BSkyB's stock. Some are worried James will funnel cash to pop's firm rather than pay dividends. Iain Richards of Morley Fund Management told TIME he is "dismayed" by James' crowning and criticizes BSkyB for "the structure of the board, the extensive related-party transactions with News Corporation, remuneration...