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...when Jacobson left to found Highfields HMC gave him $500 million in capital; likewise when the Harvard Private Capital Group spun off later that year with $1.8 billion in HMC funds to start Charlesbank...
Meyer noted that similar questions have been raised each time a group has spun...
...timber to sell," he says. "We had no coal to mine. But the Internet is something anyone can do anywhere." Dragging his tribe into the 21st century, he turned the Cheyenne River Telephone Authority into a satellite-TV, cell-phone and Internet-service provider - and then spun off a new data-processing corporation called Lakota Technologies Inc. LTI employs 20 people, but Bourland dreams of 1,000 workers scattered across the 2.8-million-acre reservation. To train them, Bourland persuaded Cisco Systems to open one of its networking academies on the reservation. Students at Cheyenne Eagle Butte High School...
...walked quickly toward him. Before Mikki could move, the gunman killed him with a three-shot combination known to hit men as "Mozambique style"--a bullet to the forehead and one in each breast. It was a local power play--a battle over cash that may have been spun off by a corrupt deal--but an example of the kinds of Palestinian-on-Palestinian violence that corrode the cause...
...timber to sell," he says. "We had no coal to mine. But the Internet is something anyone can do anywhere." Dragging his tribe into the 21st century, he turned the Cheyenne River Telephone Authority into a satellite-TV, cell-phone and Internet-service provider--and then spun off a new data-processing corporation called Lakota Technologies Inc. LTI employs 20 people, but Bourland dreams of 1,000 workers scattered across the 2.8-million-acre reservation. To train them, Bourland persuaded Cisco Systems to open one of its networking academies on the reservation. Students at Cheyenne Eagle Butte High School...