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...Partnership first finds Bavarian immigrant Marcus Goldman in 1869, reselling commercial paper in New York City's Jewish community. Over the next 35 years, the enterprise grows in small steps, thanks to the boss's shrewd, conservative moves and the help of his broad-thinking son-in-law Samuel Sachs...
...governor of Oruzgan's Chora district, Khan was a former provincial police chief who had acted as Karzai's protector when the Pashtun leader returned from exile in 2001 to rally tribes against the Taliban. His death "has made the tribes angry," says his elder son, Dawood. "They want to stand against the Australians...
...exclusive interview with TIME, Rozi Khan's younger son, Khosal, who was wounded that night, gave an eyewitness account of the shoot-out. At about 10 p.m. his father got a call from a friend named Samad Jan, who had heard suspicious noises and feared Taliban fighters were surrounding his home. "The Taliban had come to Jan's house a few nights earlier," says Khosal, and his father had promised to come to Jan's aid if they showed up again...
Despite not-bad first-half financial results, these are cautious times for Roberts and his son Brian, 49, the corporation's CEO. Cable companies like Comcast and Time Warner Cable (which is being spun off from Time Warner Inc., TIME's parent) are getting competition from all directions. As Brian Roberts put it in a speech that said as much about Comcast as it did about his industry, "There have been moments in time when cable has been at a major inflection point. This is one of those moments...
...position this important, Kashkari, the American-born son of Kashmiri immigrants, may seem an unlikely pick: he's been in finance for only eight years, two as a student at the Wharton School and four as an executive in the San Francisco office of Paulson's old firm, Goldman Sachs. At Goldman, Kashkari was so low on the food chain that he only got to know Paulson well after they both moved to the Treasury...