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...action is attracting a host of new players. Investment banks, which retrenched after the tech bust, are ratcheting back up, as are money managers like financial-services firm Amvescap, which last week acquired WL Ross & Co., a buyout firm run by turnaround specialist Wilbur Ross. Even hedge funds--whose trader mentality is antithetical to buying and holding--are taking pages out of the buyout playbook. Hedge-fund operator Eddie Lampert not only bought and merged Sears and Kmart but also installed himself as chairman...
...down to 35%, according to S&P. That is still a far cry from the 7% equity levels of the original buyout craze, but the trend is nonetheless an indicator that the industry is starting to overheat. "That often happens toward the end of one of these cycles," says Ross. "People get too aggressive with their lending...
...David Ross, former President Clinton’s chief negotiator at the 2000 Camp David negotiations, seemed more concerned with discussing the limits of the lobby’s power—questioning Walt and Mearsheimer’s linkage of the lobby’s power to Iraq and Iran...
...Both Ross and Ben-Ami seemed more concerned with refuting Walt and Mearsheimer’s claims about the Israel lobby’s power than discrediting them by punching individual holes in their arguments. In his rebuttal, by contrast, Dershowitz had selected individual quotations that Walt and Mearsheimer had used and attempted to show how they had taken them out of context...
...state solution, Palestinians would control the West Bank. But the need to maintain Israeli security has compelled some observers to rethink how an Israeli withdrawal from the region should be handled. Dennis Ross, Middle East envoy for Presidents George H.W. Bush and Clinton, criticizes the way Israel left Gaza last year. "The withdrawal," says Ross, "should not have taken place unless the Palestinians were going to create the security force to ensure security on their side, so that there weren't attacks out of Gaza into Israel." Given all that has happened, says Ross, Olmert will be able to pull...