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...Hong Kong it is known as the princely hong, or trading house, and its leader is the taipan, the big boss. Throughout most of its 156-year history, Jardine Matheson & Co. has been the foremost trader in the colony, and as readers of Novelist James Clavell know, it has been run not so much by a series of executives as by a dynasty of merchant-rulers. Now the succession has taken its strangest turn. Instead of drawing from the small Scottish knot of the founders' families, Jardine Matheson has announced that Brian Powers, 38, a former New York investment banker...
Powers has the boldness to keep building Jardines. Says he: "I think you can manage a conglomerate just fine, if you've got it structured just right." And he has absorbed a lot of the 19th century trader's ethos. Regarding future acquisitions, he declares, "We don't care what industry it's in, as long as it's a good buy." To keep its far-flung empire flourishing, Jardines may have picked just the right taipan...
...optimistic, he helps people in need. He not only fights criminals but is indifferent to those vices that so often lead the rest of us astray. Despite his heroic abilities, he is not vain. He is not greedy. He is not an operator, a manipulator, not an inside trader. He does not lust after power. And not only is he good, he is also innocent, in a kind and guileless way that Americans have sometimes been but more often have only imagined themselves...
...well. Bob Strauss is not one to dwell on his failures. As a consummate inside political trader, perhaps the last of the breed, he never lacks new challenges. His predecessors, all the great political bosses and power brokers of the past -- Daley, Meany, Rayburn, Johnson -- are gone now, their reputations eroded by the winds of calamity and reform. Yet if today's prefab candidates and queasy partisanship make some voters long for the old smoke- filled rooms, they can take heart: the legacy of the backstage impresarios lives on in Strauss...
...Alerted by his wife that he was acting irrationally, police stopped him as he drove from his Rumson mansion and arrested him for carrying a semiautomatic rifle. The police said Mulheren, who has been treated for manic depression, seemed intent on killing Boesky and Boesky's former head trader, Michael Davidoff. Mulheren apparently thought they were linking him to the insider-trading scandal...