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Back in the days when NASDAQ-made millionaires were multiplying like mold spores, Desai materialized as a boy-wonder benefactor. He went on a pledging spree, contacting four colleges out of the blue and promising them a total of more than $5 million. That was before the Internet bubble--not to mention Desai's career--burst. To date he has coughed up only...
...budget before considering tax relief. But Bush - whose Kalamazoo address was scheduled 10 days ago - is in danger of losing the initiative on his own brand of economic stimulus. Surely his experts have told him that $5.6 billion in 2001 for 200 million taxpayers does not a consumer spending spree make. So what's been the holdup...
...high volatility week and a high-anxiety weekend," he notes, adding that the current environment feels a lot like that. And so far there has been no cathartic sell-off, just a steady exodus, mainly from tech stocks. Market watchers would like to see capitulation--a panicky selling spree that flushes out all the worrywarts and sets the stage for the next bull market...
...sells real estate, and his Beijing apartment is filled with pale blond Ikea furniture. He doesn't need the money, really, but he's longing for a new Zegna suit, and his latest patron - the 48-year-old wife of a property magnate - has promised him a spring shopping spree. "We're good for each other," he insists. "I give her confidence about her sexuality and she helps me finance things I could never...
...Mary Jo White the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, the first woman to hold what is widely considered the nation's most prestigious post for prosecutors. Eight years later, after months of grandstanding at congressional hearings and scattered inquiries into Clinton's last-minute pardon spree, Attorney General John Ashcroft has given White the green light to investigate any of the 177 eleventh-hour pardons and commutations. The Justice Department characterized Ashcroft's decision, which could involve cases lying outside White's jurisdiction, as a "routine effort to consolidate cases...