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...Peter Peterson, the Greek hash-house owner's son who rose to the presidency of Bell & Howell before he was 35, and Lewis Glucksman, the Manhattan lamp manufacturer's son who scrapped his way up through Lehman's unprestigious but increasingly profitable stock-and-bond-trading department, might have been born enemies. Peterson emerges as cold, almost oblivious to the people around him. A close associate who may have saved his life during a seizure recalls that Peterson never thanked him. Glucksman was mercurial, an "emotional volcano" in the phrase of a colleague, who might kiss or curse fellow employees...
...some pretty rough things about Mark Geragos, Scott Peterson's lawyer...
...credit. A lot of lawyers are actually afraid to try cases. They're house pets. You've got to give that to Geragos - he's not afraid to try a case. But I disagree with his tactics. To float such preposterous theories, such as a satanic cult killed Laci Peterson. It's ridiculous - nothing whatsoever to support it. It's basically a say-anything defense. The reality is, when you're representing someone that's guilty, you're in the position of taking that position. To me, it would be an unacceptable way to make a living. Under our adversarial...
...remain so enamored of Greenberg that this year they honored him with their prestigious Marco Polo Prize for promoting Sino-American relations. "Hank Greenberg is perhaps the best known and most admired American businessman at both top government and top business levels in [India and China]," says Peter G. Peterson, who was an economic adviser to Richard Nixon and has known Greenberg for years...
...Peterson says she has asked House Tutors to advise informally rather than formally because she cannot ensure that their information is consistent with the department?...