Word: queens
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...Merrill's Blodget outlined a weekly schedule that had him spending 85% of his time on banking and 15% on stock research. Many analysts had investment-banking bonuses written into their contracts. In an interview with FORTUNE last year, Mary Meeker, the analyst at Morgan Stanley who was dubbed "queen of the Net" for her connections in Silicon Valley, spoke freely of her interest in IPOs and investment banking. A 1999 Wall Street Journal article reported that star technology banker Frank Quattrone at Credit Suisse First Boston enjoyed "unusual autonomy," which included tech analysts' reporting directly to him. CSFB...
During her Golden Jubilee year, QUEEN ELIZABETH has traveled around the country allowing her subjects to throw flowers, blow kisses and otherwise demonstrate their appreciation for her 50 years as monarch. Last week, as she and husband Prince Philip toured Newcastle, local resident Brynn Richard Reed expressed his feelings in a less conventional way. Jogging alongside their Rolls-Royce, Reed waved and shouted, "Yoo-hoo!" But chances are, what caught the royals' attention was Reed's unavoidable nudity. That and the words RUDE BRITANNIA scrawled across his buttocks. Police dragged him away, but he may have given the Queen...
...been called India's fashion queen, the costume designer of choice for Indian film goddess Madhuri Dixit. Even Nicole Kidman is a fan. And Beri, 30, has been named chief designer for the ready-to-wear division of Paris-based Jean-Louis Scherrer, making her the first Indian designer to gain such a position in France. An auspicious sign: Beri's mentor is renowned fashion mogul Mounir Moufarrige, who supercharged the career of designer Stella McCartney...
...other side of the issue, mothers of "queen bees" should be very specific with their daughters that the same rules for treating people decently face-to-face also apply to IM-ing or phoning. These moms should also consider controlling access to these weapons of lass destruction by removing conference-calling and call-waiting features and limiting time on the computer. And they should caution their girls against using incendiary language, which is a huge temptation with IM-ing; the word slut is the current favorite pejorative. Girls who know exactly what the rules are will get that...
...Atlantic accent Losers DANIELLE STEEL Steamy novelist hogs 26 parking permits in cramped San Fran. The city may want to rethink policy of allotting spaces based on fabulousness ANN WINTERTON British Tory M.P. sacked from opposition post for telling an Asian joke. If this is a fireable offense, the Queen might need to find a new consort JASON KIDD NBA star loses out on league MVP. Let's take a moment and remember that before he became a New Jersey Net, he was a Phoenix Wife Beater...