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Unfortunately, Hirsch was not Midas, and he couldn't afford to pay his postdocs more than the standard $18,000 yearly stipend. To support his family, Ho started moonlighting in Mass General's walk-in clinics. It turned out to be the right time to be in that place too. "The clinics are where you see the flus, the colds, the common illnesses," Ho says. In the mid-1980s, however, he started seeing gay men with what appeared to be an unusually severe flu. They always got over their illness without any of the hallmarks of AIDS. Still, he wondered...
...Union Bank of Switzerland and Britain's NatWest are trying to muscle in on the gold mine by hiring away some of the hottest prospectors. Deutsche Bank lured investment banker Frank Quattrone from Morgan Stanley, apparently by offering the kind of deal that made it easy for him to walk away from a reported $10 million job at his old firm. Goldman Sachs is attempting to stave off poaching by creating a new rung on the corporate ladder: junior partners, who will share some of the riches traditionally reserved for full partners. The company named 38 new partner-managing directors...
Ovitz won't walk away empty-handed. His severance package could reach $90 million if he gets to exercise all the stock options in his contract. Disney sources discounted that figure, implying that the exit deal was cut closer to $30 million...
When the defense rested its case, "all the court watchers came and congratulated me," says Nelson Bickley, one of Kay's original lawyers. "The world--or what little world was there--felt she was going to walk." Even Riffe says, "Frankly, if they'd found her innocent, I wouldn't have been too upset." So the jury's verdict, guilty of first-degree murder, which carried a 15-year-to-life sentence, was a shock. Says Bickley, who in part blames himself for inadequate presentation of expert testimony: "I think the jury did not fully understand what the battered woman...
Michael Roemer, the executive director of the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) died while on a walk Friday morning...