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...clearly forgotten to delete it from the e-mail. The list included not only grades for all students, but also "the T.F.'s honest personal perceptions of each student," Mathes says. When he looked at the T.F.'s comments about him, he found himself described as "a poor test-taker who was frequently absent and was unable to turn in papers on time." Mathes says he was shocked by the characterization and especially by the fact that it was circulating in administrative circles. "I didn't appreciate my T.F. spreading my scandalous confidences, and I liked it even less when...
...this is the way panics start: denial turns into confusion, and everyone rushes to be first out. If you're nervous, consider playing it safe for a while, especially if you can shift assets without tax consequences, as in a 401(k) plan. If you're a risk taker, look for a spot to start buying in battered Asia. There are plenty of stock mutual funds that target the Pacific Rim. Asia has become the No. 1 destination of traveling Wall Streeters the past few weeks, all of them hoping to find the bottom. We've got to be getting...
...vicarious fulfillment. One wants to see oneself as a good and giving person. There is nothing wrong in that, but it can't be the only goal. The ultimate goal must be a change in the system in which both the giver and taker live." She doesn't like the word charity except in the sense of caritas, love. "Love," she said, "is not based on marking people up by assets and virtues. Love is based on the mystery of the person, who is unfathomable and is going somewhere I will never know...
Lippo's campaign for Washington clout began shortly after Bill Clinton's swearing-in. The Riadys, who control Lippo, formed a partnership with their old friend Giroir to line up U.S. investors for the family's Asian ventures. Giroir, 58, had been a risk taker ever since he made his mark as Arkansas's first big-time securities lawyer two decades ago. As the Rose Law Firm's managing partner, Giroir helped hire Hillary Clinton but was then ousted by her and other partners after some of his outside deals began to conflict with Rose's interests. By then, Giroir...
There are lots of wrinkles to the Ickes tale. Like his father, another compulsive note taker, he's learning just how cold Washington can be when the mighty fall. (Harold Sr. resigned when he found himself on the wrong side of his boss Harry Truman.) But the real irony of Ickes' story is that he is the first casualty of a fund-raising machine whose very creation he opposed. It was Dick Morris, the consultant turned million-dollar author, who pushed Clinton in 1995 to make his comeback with a centrist, ad-driven strategy that would require truckloads of cash...