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...buyers came knocking. A consortium led by the Morgan Stanley Real Estate Fund hired Chao and won the bidding on the first and biggest chunk, $1.3 billion in loans from Huarong Asset Management, in 2001. Such successes have made Chao fairly fearless. Last fall, during a staff retreat in Phoenix, Arizona, he led three lawyers from China on a three-hour mountain-biking trip in the blistering sun along rattlesnake-infested rocky roads. "What the heck," he told them. "After China, this is nothing." Reckless attitude? Chao would probably call it risk arbitrage...
...buyers came knocking. A consortium led by the Morgan Stanley Real Estate Fund hired Chao and won the bidding on the first and biggest chunk, $1.3 billion in loans from Huarong Asset Management, in 2001. Such successes have made Chao fairly fearless. Last fall, during a staff retreat in Phoenix, Ariz., he led three lawyers from China on a three-hour mountain-biking trip in the blistering sun along rattlesnake-infested rocky roads."What the heck," he told them. "After China, this is nothing." Reckless attitude? Chao would probably call it risk arbitrage. --By Sonja Steptoe/Menlo Park
...while separately writing features and reviews for the online album-reviewing site, Pitchforkmedia. Sylvester is currently an associate editor for Pitchfork and writes regular reviews for the site, in addition to writing for the Village Voice and the Boston Phoenix...
...requests for information every day. A 16-year-old threatened to visit the couple's "crappy law firm" and "burn it to the ground." The volume of traffic grew so heavy that the computer delivering the E-mail crashed repeatedly under the load. After three days, Internet Direct of Phoenix, the company that provided the lawyers with access to the Net,pulled the plug on their account...
Saturday night at the Phoenix, a freshman girl tells a senior boy: “I’m not having sex with you.” His response...