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...anyone shoulders the "blame" for Goldman's golden performance, it is Blankfein. Self-deprecating and seemingly unassuming, the former gold salesman has been ruthlessly ambitious for his firm and its continued success. "He takes it very personally when people act against the firm or show disloyalty," says a former Goldman executive. (See the worst business deals...
...Levy and later Robert Rubin - with the investment-banker pedigree of former senior partners, including Sidney Weinberg, John Weinberg, John Whitehead, Stephen Friedman and Paulson. "We would never let our reputation as the key M&A adviser ebb in favor of being a principal," Blankfein says. "We're very self-conscious that our franchise hinges on our client relationships and the business that those relationships generate...
...What picture does your daughter see when she looks at you? Does she see a woman who has sacrificed her feelings and her needs and her dreams for her daughter? Or does she see someone who is a caregiver but who also creates the space to assert her authentic self...
...Lieberman's Iran Refined Petroleum Sanctions Act "a sword of Damocles" hanging over the Iranians, the view from Tehran is quite different. In Tehran's daily newspaper Mardom Salari, columnist Hamid Reza Shokouhi recently wrote, "It is possible to turn this sword of Damocles into an opportunity for gaining self-sufficiency." (See pictures of the turbulent aftermath of the Iranian elections...
With new refineries in construction - thanks to incoming Chinese, Russian and Indian investment - Iran predicts it will be self-sufficient in gasoline production by 2013. That seems a little optimistic, but further tough talk by the U.S. on a gas embargo may just help Iran reach its long-held goal a little faster...