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...Although Buffett revered his father, a stockbroker who became a four-term Congressman, he had a complex relationship with his mother. A model housewife to the outside world, his mother would "verbally lash" the young Buffett and his older sister for hours, until the children wept. Buffett says that when his mother died he cried not because he was sad but "because of the waste. She had her good parts, but the bad parts kept me from having a relationship with...
...raft of new investment proposals, which tellingly preceded the Maoist-led government's announcement of its first budget on Sept. 19. "Anybody in power in Kathmandu would know that they need India more than China," says Muni. "The China card is played simply as a reflection of their relationship with India...
...very different place than the one many LGBT alumni remember. And it affords alumni themselves a chance to fashion a new set of memories, hopefully more positive than the ones they currently hold. It represents an opportunity for both Harvard and its LGBT alumni to reconnect and rebuild a relationship that has been so fraught in the past...
...serve on our Board,” Schwarzman said in a statement. “His extraordinary understanding of financial markets, his thoughtful academic approach, and his broad perspective on business and finance will be of great value to all of us at Blackstone.” The relationship between Light and Schwarzman extends back to their first year at the Business School, when new faculty member Light taught a decision theory class taken by first-year student Schwarzman. After graduating from the Business School, Schwarzman worked at Lehman Brothers, where he rose to chair Lehman’s mergers...
...course, there's a worst-case scenario: that McCain would, if elected, maintain his predecessor's chilly relationship with Spain. Spaniards may, on the whole, revile American politics and American comida de basura (junk food), but they still tend to measure their Prime Minister's international worth by the esteem with which the U.S. President holds him. And so, for the past four years, the Spanish Prime Minister has tried, ever so earnestly, to prove that he's one of the big boys. At every international summit he has tried to maneuver himself into position for a photograph with Bush...