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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...
Lost in all this 21st century-style aggression is the old-fashioned fact that mothers can do something about it. Rosalind Wiseman, author of Queen Bees and Wannabes (Crown Publishing), has written a chilling account of the life our girls navigate in their school lunchrooms and hallways. Wiseman and psychologists who study mothers and daughters suggest that mothers--of the victims and the aggressors--can be hugely influential, even after trouble starts. But the first thing a mother has to do is check her own baggage. Even if you were a victim in high school, you shouldn't see your...
...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...
...year-old Gawdawpalin Pagoda, or between dips stroll through the garden to visit a pair of 11th century temples, one of which houses a well-tended golden Buddha. It's a place to get away from it all, literally. "It would be easier to take tea with the Queen," says Voss, "than to get a phone call through to Pagan." For reservations, don't ring, but e-mail baganhotel@myanmars.net...