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...Hillel is absolutely, no questions asked, going to continue to provide kosher food next year,” Herbstman said. But she added, “the flexibility and the quality of the dining program are at stake...
...Working largely behind the scenes, Elkann has focused recently on the family's holding company, IFIL, Italy's largest company, with stakes beyond the car business in banking, corporate consulting and publishing. Increasingly, though, the new capofamiglia of the Agnelli dynasty is spreading his wings. Elkann was one of just a handful of executives quoted in the press after last month's keynote address by new Bank of Italy governor Mario Draghi. Three weeks ago he participated for the second time at the annual Bilderberg meeting, an invitation-only gathering of the international business and political élite. Elkann also...
...youngest man ever elected to the New York state assembly. A Republican, Roosevelt serves three one-year terms, one as minority leader. During that time, he publishes his first book, on the War of 1812, which becomes required reading at the U.S. Naval Academy. He also buys a stake in the Maltese Cross, a cattle ranch near what is now Medora...
...business affairs, Morgan was a man accustomed to handling things personally. One of his biggest objections to the way Roosevelt had sprung the Northern Securities suit was that the President had not quietly tipped him in advance. Large sums of borrowed money were at stake, and the abrupt attack by the Justice Department had rattled the markets. In Morgan style, he went personally to Washington to meet with Roosevelt and Attorney General Philander Knox...
...confess a personal stake in the first question. Six years ago in a book I wrote called Bowling Alone, I argued that the fabric of American communities has frayed badly since the mid-1960s. I traced plummeting membership in PTAs, unions and clubs of all sorts; long-term declines in blood donations, card games and charity; and drops of 40% to 60% in dinner parties, civic meetings, family suppers, picnics and, yes, league bowling...