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...When European newspapers write about TPG's deals there, they love to run cartoons of the Texas raiders in cowboy hats. But none of the co-founders fell off a watermelon truck. Bonderman, 59, a skilled negotiator, is a Harvard law graduate. Coulter, 42, the savvy stock picker, is a Stanford M.B.A. Price, 46, who figures out how to restructure the distressed firms in which TPG invests, is a Berkeley law grad...
...CORRECTION: Two weeks ago Gossip Guy reported that notorious jackass Corker Q. Picker ’02-’03 was suspended by the Ad Board for punching Helen Vendler. In fact, Picker was booted for effeminately slapping Quincy House Master Robert P. Kirshner ’70 in the back of the head. Gossip Guy regrets the error...
...Notorious jackass Corker Q. Picker ’02-’03 took the year off to live on a commune in rural Mississippi. “I just felt like it was the thing to do,” said Picker, who was booted by the Ad Board for punching Helen Vendler. But Picker’s distant location and striking lack of charisma didn’t stop Sally I. Klein ’02 from visiting last weekend and hooking up with him in a tent, thus drawing the ire of Jennnifer T. Cohen...
...CONVICTED. Robert Long, 38, itinerant Australian fruit picker, on charges of arson and murder for starting the June 2000 fire that killed 15 at a Queensland backpackers' hostel; in Brisbane. Long is likely to face life in prison for setting the blaze in the town of Childers that claimed the lives of four Australians, six Britons, two Dutch, one Irish, one Japanese and a South Korean. DIED. Raffaele Ciriello, 42, veteran Italian war photographer, after being shot six times in the abdomen and chest, apparently by Israeli troops while in the West Bank, becoming the first foreign journalist killed there...
...deal does set up an oversight committee of three tech experts chosen jointly by Microsoft and Justice. But the trio is pretty toothless: it can't even collect evidence for potential future court cases. University of Chicago law professor Randall Picker, who describes the deal as "within the realm of reasonableness," also predicts it will trigger a whole new set of lawsuits. "I fear Microsoft's corporate culture hasn't changed," says Ohio's Montgomery, "but I'm willing to give it a chance...