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...fraternal twins who co-own the sprawling Hi Fi Personal Fitness club in Chicago, and it's clear you're in the presence of people who thrive on their drive. But that wasn't always the case. The twins' father founded the Jovan perfume company, a glamorous business that spun off the kinds of glamorous profits that made it possible for the Shipps to amble through high school, coast into college and never much worry about getting the rent paid or keeping the fridge filled. But before they graduated, their sense of drift began to trouble them. At about...
...part-time novelist and full-time infighter has met an unforgiving critic. If special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald is right, Libby spun an intricate--and criminal--web of lies when he spoke to FBI agents and a grand jury last year investigating the disclosure of CIA officer Valerie Plame to reporters in 2003. Although Libby maintained under oath that he first heard about Plame's identity from reporters and passed it on to others as mere gossip, Fitzgerald's indictment offers considerable evidence that it was the other way around--that Libby told two reporters, including TIME's Matthew Cooper, about...
...news broadcasts. “If Murrow was this crystal ball, you just dropped it and it’s shattered,” he says. “There are pieces of it everywhere, but they pick up a different light…The press has just been spun and pressed and squeezed and embedded...
...analyst with Caris & Company, calls Sun and Google ?the same company? because so much of Google's top brass is ex-Sun. Many of those same people, about 15 years ago, hatched a plan to use technology to radically transform the way people manage information. Much of what spun out of their efforts-Java, for one thing-has been powerful, but ultimately Sun's technology wasn't cheap or secure enough to really dent Microsoft, Stahlman says. ?For all the people involved, without a doubt, this is their big chance,? he says...
Larson, while still at HMC, was portfolio manager for Harvard’s investment in the fund and mulled taking action to seek new management and greater performance, Kelleher says. When he spun off his team from HMC in July 2004 to form Sowood, Larson took with him the management of Harvard’s stake in the fund...