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...think of ourselves as a newspaper company. We think of ourselves as a news and information company, with some entertainment pieces in there too, because today a lot of traditional TV is more entertainment than it is old-fashioned, Walter Cronkite news. And we have a lot of investments in technology companies...
When the Harvard Management Company (HMC), founded in 1974 to oversee Harvard’s now-$22.6 billion endowment, created a venture-capital subsidiary, it called the group Aeneas. Walter M. Cabot ’55, the company’s first president and deputy treasurer, bestowed the name—and today he says the Trojan hero still captures his idea of how an investment group should operate...
...Walter...led the company into many innovative investments including venture capital, real estate, oil and gas, security lending, and index arbitrage,” says Jack R. Meyer, who succeeded Cabot as the HMC president...
...Essayist Walter Kirn's "Stuck in the Orbit of Satellite Radio" lamented the inability to hear local programming along vast stretches of the American landscape [May 23]. The dearth of interesting local programs is a direct result of the consolidation of ownership of radio, television and print media. Locally owned radio stations cannot compete with those owned by big corporations...
...great help to be able to get their goods around the central area promptly. I would commend a congestion charge for all large cities whose residents would like to be able to breathe clean air. Malcolm Dymott Uxbridge, England Re your selection of Rome's mayor Walter Veltroni: Although I work in Vienna, I am Roman, and not very young. I have never seen Rome in as poor condition as it is under Veltroni's administration. He apparently is a kind man who believes that to manage a city, it is sufficient to visit old ladies and the disabled. Piero...