Word: rattner
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...deeply patient man," Nane says. "I have never heard him raise his voice." Fixtures on the New York social circuit, the two sometimes drop into three parties in one evening. Last week they were scheduled to attend a dinner on Tuesday at the home of investment banker Steve Rattner; on Sunday Kofi phoned Nane from Baghdad, telling her to assure the hosts he would make it back in time. Holbrooke recalls attending a bash with the Annans at the Waldorf-Astoria last year. "There was a dance band, and most people wandered out at the end," he says...
Gates was surprised to learn that such a statement would be cheap: $1 billion could buy about 11% of Comcast. (A similar slice of his company would cost $18 billion.) Roberts soon returned to Seattle with his investment banker Steven Rattner, the newly elevated deputy CEO of Lazard Freres in New York City. Like Roberts and Gates, Rattner is a low-key baby boomer with an intense interest in media and technology. On a Tuesday morning, four weeks after the dinner, Gates and Greg Maffei, Microsoft vice president for corporate development, went to Rattner's suite at the Woodmark Hotel...
...wants to use the Family Channel as an outlet for Fox's children's programming, thus creating a potent challenger to Viacom's Nickelodeon. "Acquisition of the Family Channel would mark another step in Murdoch's drive to establish a dominant presence in production, packaging and distribution," says Steven Rattner, a media-investment banker at Lazard Freres. "It looks smart...
...else about the notion of privatizing Social Security? "Maybe," says Michael Steinhardt, the hedge-fund guru who chairs the Progressive Foundation, which will publish the manifesto. Steinhardt is one of about two dozen wealthy Democrats behind the project, a roster that includes entertainment mogul Barry Diller; investment bankers Steve Rattner, Felix Rohatyn and Barrie Wigmore; and entrepreneurs Mitch Hart, who started Electronic Data Systems with Ross Perot, and Sandy Robertson, who assembled much of the California support so vital to Clinton's '92 drive...
...says Steinhardt, who identifies himself, Diller and Hart as the three most willing to walk away from Clinton right now. "Precisely because we could be washed out in a Clinton loss, I hope our 'third way' leads to a third party," says Steinhardt. "That's a ticket to irrelevance," Rattner retorts. "We should stick with Clinton as we try to remake the party." "But why support someone who's conned you?" asks Diller...