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Just a couple of years ago, Grubman's word was gold. His "buy" rating on a telecom stock would send investors rushing to own it. But when favorite Grubman stocks like Global Crossing, WorldCom and Winstar began to slide in 2000, so did Grubman's clout. He has come to embody everything that went wrong on Wall Street in the late '90s, as it blended investment advice with investment banking. That mix was long taboo, yet Grubman brazenly played both roles and once boasted that "what used to be a conflict is now a synergy...
...Harrison's other larks, like the Traveling Wilburys or his 1987 cover of Got My Mind Set on You, and you will find yourself having a fine time. Harrison could always write a memorable guitar line, and he does some exquisite work here, turning in a particularly nifty slide on Marwa Blues. Harrison's voice, weakened by cancer, barely gets above the music on many tracks, but if you listen closely, you can hear him dancing through the easy melodies. Or, you can hear whatever you like. --By Josh Tyrangiel
...Whether he can continue to mop up cell-phone subscribers, however, remains to be seen. India's notoriously obstructionist regulatory policies are being reformed, allowing prices to slide and competition to increase. The market has drawn potent players in the form of cell-phone subsidiaries backed by foreign heavyweights such as Hong Kong's Hutchison Whampoa and AT&T Wireless. Other rivals are piling in: a government phone company, Bharat Sanchar Nigam, is expanding its mobile network. And in December, India's powerful Ambani family, which controls Reliance Industries, India's largest private sector company, is launching a discount national...
Gephart saw his hard work come to fruition last Friday night when the Boston premiere of Soul Slide entertained a crowd of about 100 people. Held in trendy Atlas bar at the bottom of Jillian’s, the atmosphere was more final club than ski lodge. Guests perched on velvet-sided barstools under subtle lighting as Top 40 pop music played in the background. Numerous televisions hung from the ceiling and three huge screens behind the bar showed the film, which combined sweeping shots of traditional freeheel skiing interspersed with footage of daredevil stunts...
Since returning from California, Gephart has continued to work with Unparalleled. He is currently organizing premieres of Soul Slide all across the Northeast, in addition to helping edit an instructional ski film the company is producing. If all goes according to plan, Unparalleled will have enough money to hire him this summer or next year. Regardless, Gephart says, “I’m going to do this one way or another after I graduate. It’s something I have a passion...