Word: stanley
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...Perella thought he could sidestep the pernicious culture-clash now consuming Morgan Stanley, where he's served as rainmaker and mentor for the firm's ?lite investment bankers for 12 years. But even Perella, a renowned dealmaker, couldn't find any middle ground in a family feud ignited the day the Ivy Leaguers at Morgan sold out to the hard-knocks brokers at Dean Witter Discover...
...Morgan Stanley, split from J.P. Morgan's financial empire by regulators in 1935, has rarely seen such turmoil. For now, the brand remains strong. Stock and bond trading have been minting gold, and the firm has advised on seven of the 10 biggest takeovers in the world this year. But the increasingly bitter spat between Purcell, a master survivor, and eight former Morgan bankers led by another ex-president, Robert Scott, threatens all that...
...Still, at today's prices, Lee isn't buying. Nor am I. After all, having missed the joyride so far, it's hard not to worry that the headiest gains have already been made. The most vocal doomsayer is Morgan Stanley economist Andy Xie, who has warned repeatedly?to the great misfortune of those who've heeded him?about an ominous oversupply of apartments and the government's halfhearted efforts to rein in speculation. For me, there's a particular terror of repeating my New York mistake: joining the herd moments before it runs off the cliff. But with Chinese...
Saturday, April 16. Ralph Stanley & his Clinch Mountain Boys and the Peter Rowan/Tony Rice Quartet. 8 p.m., Sanders Theatre. $30, $25 students. Tickets available at Harvard Box Office...
...1960s the indirect approach to the Bomb seemed to be changing. In 1963 Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds was produced, and in 1964 Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove. One was a standard something-is-wrong-with-nature film that made monsters of benignities, the other a headlong black-comic attack on the nuclear threat. Dr. Strangelove even incorporated the subtheme of nature out of control in the Bomb-crazy Dr. Strangelove's right arm, which goes its own way, fondly recalls the doctor's Nazi days and at one point attempts to strangle its "master." Commercially, if not critically...