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...Goldman, Sachs & Co.] care about making money," said R. Martin Chavez, chief energy strategist and vice president of the J. Aron unit at that firm...
Higginbotham entered MGH last week for his third operation since the beginning of the year. On Saturday, Higginbotham was diagnosed with pneumonia and was moved into MGH's intensive care unit...
...good this year for Dow Jones & Co., owner of the Wall Street Journal, among other media properties. First, a small but determined group of stockholders, including some of the family that controls the company's voting shares, raised a ruckus about its weak performance, particularly at its Telerate unit. Then last week the company's star attraction, the Journal, got whacked with a $223 million libel judgment, the largest ever, courtesy of a Houston jury. The panel found the paper and one of its reporters, Laura Jereski, had libeled the investment firm MMAR Group Inc. The company went...
...19th century affair: charming, wooden and occasionally raucous. But last week the hallowed institution got a jolt from the Labour Party's modern arsenal of database and communications weaponry. As Conservative Prime Minister John Major fielded a softball question about the insurance business, a member of Labour's "rebuttal unit" dived into the party's database and identified the questioner as a paid consultant for the insurance industry. The researcher zapped the news via pager to a Labour M.P. sitting in the House of Commons, producing an awkward moment for Major and a revolution in real-time technological politics...
...killed by a Jordanian soldier last Thursday. Hussein's diplomacy may prove to be more effective at healing feelings than at changing Israeli policy. After a two-hour private meeting with the Jordanian leader, Benjamin Netanyahu announced his government's determination to proceed with construction of a 6,500-unit housing settlement in east Jerusalem. The initial announcement of the settlement plans sparked an angry response from Hussein last week and prompted Yasser Arafat to cut off all communication with Netanyahu. Arafat had also warned of renewed Palestinian violence if Israel proceeds with construction on the Jewish settlement. That comment...