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While Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles has emphasized frugality in a time of limited budgets, the government department is using roughly $3000 in leftover discretionary funds for a planning retreat at a seaside inn in Maine...
...retreat will begin tomorrow at the Stage Neck Inn in York Harbor, Maine. Faculty members can swim in the hotel sauna and eat seaweed-covered lobster in between meetings about the future of the department...
...money is left over from funds granted last year to department chair Susan J. Pharr by Knowles' office. She said yesterday that she is not sure exactly how much the retreat will cost, but $3000 might be an accurate estimate...
...retreat's schedule does not inspire all members of the department...
...board meetings of QVC and CBS approached, the Robertses summoned Lazard Freres investment bankers Steven Rattner and Felix Rohatyn to Comcast's Philadelphia offices on Friday, July 8. Rattner flew in from Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, and Rohatyn was fetched in a Comcast plane from his summer retreat on Long Island, New York. The talk centered on financing the Comcast bid, with Brian Roberts nonetheless repeatedly asking, "Are we doing this only because we're angry?" After securing a $1 billion line of credit from the Bank of New York last Monday, the Robertses were ready to strike. They began...