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...response to questions from TIME Thursday, Lamont's campaign manager, Tom Swan, said the candidate was not actively controlling the investment. "He does not own any stock directly, it's not a direct holding," he said. Part of the Wal-Mart stock is held in a Goldman Sachs "Tax Advantaged Core Strategies managed account," according to a letter released Thursday by Swan. He said the account is designed to track the S&P 500 index, and that Goldman Sachs makes the investment decisions for the account...
...latest Quinnipiac poll. His campaign accused the Lieberman camp of desperate political tactics in criticizing his holdings of the Wal-Mart stock. "This is a pathetic attempt by someone who's clinging to power to make an issue where there is no issue," Lamont's campaign manager Swan said...
...Swan said Lamont has no plans to sell either the Halliburton or the Wal-Mart stock. "At this time he is not looking to getting into directly managing or investing any of his funds," Swan said, "If he is fortunate enough to be elected, Mr. Lamont realizes that there are a variety of investing decisions that he will have to make," including "how to deal with [his investments] in the most ethical manner...
...layered upon beats, The Eraser is full of Radiohead music--dark, dystopian, oddly beautiful--minus the other members of Radiohead. (It was composed mostly on a laptop.) In spots, the band is missed. The Clock creates some grinding tension but never figures out how to release it, while Black Swan eddies around a chorus ("This is f___ed up, f___ed up") that hardly mines new emotional territory. You can sense Yorke's grasping for something, and with the help of producer Nigel Godrich, who oversaw Beck's midcareer-crisis record, Sea Change, he eventually finds it: clarity...
...it’s vaguely condescending and distinctly boring. Regardless, hearing an artist compose his own eulogy is rare, rarer still for an artist of such influence. Cash’s malaise can’t hide the complexity that made him legendary, and a legend’s swan song shouldn’t be ignored. —Reviewer Nicholas K. Tabor can be reached at ntabor@fas.harvard.edu...