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...eviscerated that argument in a case taken against the EPA by Massachusetts back in April. That the EPA still hasn't ruled on California's waiver shows that "the administration is just trying to run out the clock on global warming," said Philip Clapp, president of the National Environmental Trust...
...there. Court-appointed lawyers investigating the case allege that Sahashi, who has been fired by the board and hasn't been seen in public since June, had turned his company into something of a personal piggy bank; they accuse him of misappropriation and aggravated breach of trust. (Sahashi's representative has filed a petition rebutting these allegations.) On Oct. 30, the lawyers invited reporters to check out Sahashi's lavish office at the company's Osaka headquarters, complete with a fully stocked wet bar and a hidden bedroom and sauna. "I wanted to show the extent of his misdeeds," said...
This year Zell orchestrated the largest leveraged buyout ever when he sold his Equity Office Properties (EOP) Trust to Blackstone Group for $39 billion in a hotly contested bidding war. He also led the winning $8.2 billion bid to acquire the Tribune Co.--a deal that is yet to close. Zell won't comment on Tribune, but during a recent trip to New York City, he did sit down with TIME's Janet Morrissey to talk about the economy, the debt markets, housing and where he sees the greatest opportunities today...
...your sale of Equity Office Properties Trust mark the top of the real estate market and the peak of the private-equity boom...
Before sitting down to write this column, the final edition of Around the Ivies stamped with my goofy mug (online readers, you’ll have to trust me), I watched Jeopardy! and put on sweats. But before that, I brainstormed, “What’s something special I can do to mark this last go-round?” I considered sending a coded message with the first letter of every paragraph, or peppering the prose with phrases in Spanish, or letting my 14-year-old sister write it to see if anyone would notice...