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...buyouts; a number of deals have been put off. Credit runs in cycles and this, it seems, might be the top. You might consider it exhibit A that the people most in tune with that cycle, those running firms like Blackstone, are deciding to sell some of their stake to the public. Companies usually go public to raise capital, but Blackstone hardly needs to float shares to find investors. Instead, the move is a way for executives to cash...
...units" include the Chinese government and insurance giant AIG. At least two Blackstone directors have bought shares in the open market, though insiders are, by far, net sellers. Still, plenty of on-lookers have warned that if the super-savvy billionaires who run Blackstone are selling some of their stake in the company, you don't want to be on the buying end of that transaction. But if that logic really held up, you'd never want to buy around the time of an IPO?managers always have better insight into their company when it has just been listed...
...indeed the question, but Gore answered it when he said, "If the crib is on fire, you save the baby!" American democracy is the baby, and the future of the free world is at stake. A somewhat cooler globe will be uninhabitable if the values we cherish are on fire. Run, Al, run! Sheenu Srinivasan, GLASTONBURY, CONNECTICUT, U.S. 400 Years It's taken me three-fourths of a century to realize that history is really composed of a large collection of absolutely fascinating stories such as the pieces on Jamestown [May 7], which included pictures and wonderful graphics...
...their traffic from search engines. Watching the latest round of political debates, I've become a little skeptical of both side's commitment to their political platform. If candidates feel so strongly about the top issues of the day, then perhaps they should purchase keywords on those issues to stake out their positions. If a candidate wants to broadcast a position on abortion, why not purchase the term "abortion," "pro-life" or "pro-choice?" (John McCain appears to have purchased a sponsored listing for "pro-life," but it seems that no other candidates have yet caught on to the practice...
...immigrant's story of hungry hearts and divided loyalties is delivered with uncommon honesty and understanding in Sarfraz Manzoor's Greetings from Bury Park. But what gives the memoir its special kick is that the Pakistani-born Briton, now 35, manages to stake out his own life, more hopeful than his parents', not by becoming an assimilated Englishman, nor by turning to radical Islam, but by becoming, of all things, a Springsteenite. In the songs of the Catholic Bruce Springsteen, from New Jersey, the keema aloo-loving boy in working-class England finds a way to grasp his parents' dreams...